2007-02-22 03:09:10 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ China
Yes, the high price of real estate is one factor. Another factor is that most skyscrapers are built on lots of land that originally held a shorter and smaller building. They demolish a smaller building and build a taller one in its place to take advantage of the high price of real estate. The buildings look slim because the original lots were not that big in the first place. A lot of prime Hong Kong is actually built on reclaimed land, land that they filled in the harbour to create more space. The harbour has gotten narrower in the past few decades and which is a real shame as it is one of the things Hong Kong is famous for.
2007-02-24 21:13:35 · answer #1 · answered by luffy1 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ferrisob is right (how right can one guy be...). An added factor is that not only is the actual piece of land the skyscraper stands on more expensive than it is possible to imagine (so you want to keep that as small as possible), but the excellent rock that Hong Kong is built out of allows them to build incredibly tall buildings on relatively light foundations.
What is almost totally inexplicable though, is that a few miles from where the land is 'so' expensive, there are hundreds of square miles of green empty landscape (set aside by the Government as parks and reserves). Just proves that 'location' is everything in property values...
2007-02-23 03:11:50 · answer #2 · answered by nandadevi9 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because real estate is so expensive. Its cheaper to build up than out.
Added to that the great numbers of people populating a dense area, land is scarce, so it makes sense to build upwards.
2007-02-22 11:15:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Thats an easy one they built them like there women,
and they are trying to build as many.
2007-02-24 01:22:29 · answer #4 · answered by Mrs R 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
ferrisob 1's answer is right. loads of people there and not very much land.
2007-02-22 14:20:04 · answer #5 · answered by flightmedicine 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how on earth is anyone ment to know that?! maybe because the people are so slender and thin too through eating rice all day?
2007-02-22 11:12:52 · answer #6 · answered by Keira 4 · 1⤊ 5⤋
Just look at the people. Do you see many short and stumpy Chinese ? !
2007-02-22 11:19:32 · answer #7 · answered by sonj75 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
well all the skyscrapers do is eat rice and nothing else
2007-02-22 11:17:37 · answer #8 · answered by Dip 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
all things built in china are based on the YING/YANG factor.this is strange but true,
2007-02-22 11:28:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋