The essential question of this research program: under what conditions does a central business district push vertically rather than laterally?
Land rents alone do not explain the skyline. Zoning envelopes, floor-area-ratio regimes, transit convergence, prestige competition among firms, and the peculiar economics of elevator technology each contribute a share.
This page inaugurates the Sparrow-rendered research series. Each page is the published view of an admin row — created, edited, and toggled from the Lucayan wrap.