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that were seventy meters high or so,
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so we're looking at really tall buildings.
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This is a time period when--the skycraper is relly born in 1980s
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and really got going in the early part of the twentieth century.
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So a question that we've begun to ask ourselves is,
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maybe the skyscraper was a response to the emergence of
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a new capital market for fixed income securities.
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Maybe the financing drove the desire for big buildings
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rather than the other way around.
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I mean New York and other cities had existed for
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a long time without skyscrapers
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and there's a lot of interesting theory about