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If someone takes the time out to actually measure/investigate this they must lead a very sad existence.
Does anybody really care?
Well, there are statistics available about almost anything, I don't see why there wouldn't exist about elevators. I guess that's important data for the electric motors industry.
Sao Paulo isn't a bad guess. That said, it is a quite difficult thing to measure, as there's so many intangibles including number of elevators in a single building, whether said building has elevators at all, etc.
Hong Kong has more skyscrapers exceeding 500' than any other city in the world, that fact is well established.
Wikipedia isn't perhaps the absolute best source, but still, I can find: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...st_skyscrapers
1. Hong Kong
2. New York City
3. Shenzhen
4. Dubai
5. Wuhan
6. Shanghai
7. Tokyo
8. Guangzhou
9. Chicago
10. Bangkok
Your question may be near impossible to answer even if we did have exactly present measures on which number of buildings were currently being built, a list which is of course constantly evolving.
The list of total highrises in a city however, I think is even near impossible to answer, and constantly evolving. I just don't think there is generally an accurate list out there. This is the closest list we have, but while I don't necessarily think any places are overrepresented (though they could be depending on how city and highrise are defined), I do think there are a fair amount of places underrepresented (Beijing, for instance)
That list though, according to Wikipedia (and I think looking at sheer number of highrises is perhaps more noteworthy here:
1. Seoul
2. Moscow
3. Hong Kong
4. Sao Paulo
5. New York City
6. Busan (whoever is reporting for SK is clearly doing thorough work, as both top Korean cities make the Top 10)
7. Singapore
8. Incheon (Also South Korea)
9. Taipei
10. Daegu (Also South Korea)
Again, I'm not saying these aren't huge cities with a great number of highrises. I'm just saying I don't necessarily buy all of them being in the Top 10 with a number no Mainland Chinese, Japanese cities, Mexico City, etc. being significantly down the list. I mean, does Caracas REALLY have nearly 3 times the number of highrises that Mexico City does? I find that claim dubious.
Anyone else want to comment/help me out with my understanding of the list of full highrises, as opposed to just elevators? Would Seoul and Moscow really top the list?
By your username I see that you are from Southeast Asia so you probably know more than me, that said I find it difficult to believe that HK would be highest straight up here. Of course, it has more highrises (500+) than any other city, and the way those and all the smaller ones line up from above is just astounding. That said, I would think that Tokyo, a city of 38M (if measured in that way), would overall have more, even in it's sub 10 story modest sized spots, than HK which while as dynamically urban as anywhere (way more of an consistently intense urban feel than Tokyo or Beijing), only has a population itself of 7M.
in some cities virtually anything starting at about 30-50m and up would have an elevator, so thats the sort of height you would need as a base I'd lean more towards a city like Seoul which is jam packed full of appartment buildings in the 50-100m range over Hong kong.
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