Shadows creeping over booming cities
Tensions between light and growth are rising as new skyscrapers emerge in US cities, casting shadows on their neighbourhoods.
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New York
RISING over Midtown is "Billionaires' Row", a collection of glassy new pinnacles that promise the kind of condo views you can get in Manhattan only by building taller than everything else around.
With its US$95 million penthouse, 432 Park Ave tops out just shy of 427 metres. It will remain the tallest residential building in the hemisphere until the Nordstrom Tower - high-end shopping below, luxury living above - goes up four blocks away. Between them are a few more audacious developments, all part of a race for ever-taller towers to distinguish luxury living in an increasingly crowded city.
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