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Old 05-12-2009, 06:06 PM
 
Location: NJ
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How come Los Angeles have only few scyscrapers? Would they built more for next for years?! Other large cities, such as Miami and Chicago have more.
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Old 05-12-2009, 06:53 PM
 
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Los Angeles has skyscrapers but they are just spread out all over Los Angeles . Of course they dont have as much as east coast cities because Los Angeles is still fairly a young city
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Old 05-12-2009, 07:26 PM
 
Location: West Michigan
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kind of a piggyback question and one that might shed light on the few skyscrapers in the LA area. How do tall skyscrapers fair during Earthquakes? I know there are building methods to reduce the effect of quite powerful earthquakes on buildings, but how tall are they effective and would the top of a really tall skyscraper act as a whip during a quake?
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Old 05-12-2009, 07:28 PM
 
Location: Omaha
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kind of a piggyback question and one that might shed light on the few skyscrapers in the LA area. How do tall skyscrapers fair during Earthquakes? I know there are building methods to reduce the effect of quite powerful earthquakes on buildings, but how tall are they effective and would the top of a really tall skyscraper act as a whip during a quake?
There are building codes to mitigate the damage of an earthquake. However, if the "big one" hits, many buildings will not survive.
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Old 05-12-2009, 08:41 PM
 
Location: West Cobb County, GA (Atlanta metro)
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This is a L.A. Specific question (not General U.S.), and will therefore be moved to that room.
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Old 05-12-2009, 09:06 PM
 
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Does LA Need More Skyscrapers?

Downtown Los Angeles

Lack of Skyscrapers?
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Old 05-12-2009, 09:19 PM
 
Location: Southern California
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kind of a piggyback question and one that might shed light on the few skyscrapers in the LA area. How do tall skyscrapers fair during Earthquakes? I know there are building methods to reduce the effect of quite powerful earthquakes on buildings, but how tall are they effective and would the top of a really tall skyscraper act as a whip during a quake?
Tuned mass dampers help solve that problem:

Tuned mass damper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 05-12-2009, 10:06 PM
 
Location: West Coast
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Seriously, this has been talked about over and over.

Bottom line: LA has quite a big of tall buildings, they are just spread out in clusters throughout the city.
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Old 05-12-2009, 10:08 PM
 
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We westerners build out not up. Sort of a simple minded answer, but if you take a look at western cities, with odd exceptions of geographical constraints (i.e. SF, Seattle, a few other smaller ones) it is true.
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Old 05-13-2009, 01:51 AM
 
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