"Taller flats"

"Building up to 40 stories has enabled us to create more value for the land and house more people in a matured estate such as Toa Payoh. Residents can also enjoy a stunning panoramic view."

... the HDB would try to maximise the opportunities to build taller flats where circumstances permitted. Forty-storey flats are about to be completed in Queenstown, while the 50-storey Pinnacle@Duxton will be completed by 2009.

- Mah Bow Tan
Minister for National Development, Singapore

"... the skyscraper - really any building over seven stories - is a product of the cheap energy age. While it is a good thing to make cities dense, the skyscraper tends to represent hypertrophy, excessive growth ... I think we must regard the skyscraper as a still-experimental building type ... it has existed because of conditions made possible by fossil fuels. It remains to be seen how well they will function in a world of fossil fuel scarcity."

- James Howard Kunstler
Author, The Long Emergency

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