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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.
Do you know of a more reliable list of total number of highrises though? I know Tokyo generally built lower and has a slightly older build date, but does Seoul really have 5x the number of highrises as the whole of Tokyo prefecture?!
Spain is in a first position clear and also well ahead compared to other countries and areas.
Spain is the country with more lifts per 1,000 inhabitants. Exactly 19.8 per 1,000 people.
...We also have the possibility to compare the percentage of lifting per capita with other countries and areas that have also been included in the ranking. In this classification, are located behind Spain and Italy in that order (14.7), Korea (12), Western Europe (10.9), Hong Kong (10), France (8.2), Shanghai (7 5), Japan (6.2), Russia (3.6), Turkey and the United States (2.8), China (2.2), Brazil (1.6) and India (0.2)
Spain rises again, with the top of the table. It is the country with the highest percentage of people living in high-rise housing, 65%. They are followed, in order, in this ranking Greece and Switzerland (59.7%), Germany (53.2%), Czech Republic (52.6%), Italy (51.1%), Euro Area and Poland (46 , 2%), Iceland (45.9%), Bulgaria (43.2%), Austria (42.5%), European Union (41.4%), Portugal (41.3%) and Sweden (40, 2 %). World ranking of lifts per | astarlifts.com
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Do you know of a more reliable list of total number of highrises though? I know Tokyo generally built lower and has a slightly older build date, but does Seoul really have 5x the number of highrises as the whole of Tokyo prefecture?!
Just guess work, like others I think the OP's is almost an impossible question to answer with 100% certainty. It also really depends if you are looking at city or metro areas as well.
I have never been to Tokyo, though for the sake of comparison using wiki it would look like the 23 special wards of Tokyo have almost exactly the same population as the Seoul special city. With Seoul been about 1000 people per square km denser. However the photos of Tokyo make it seem to be considerably flatter than Seoul, Seoul has a good number of uninhabited moutains within the urban area.
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.
I used to live in both Japan and South Korea. Yeah, tons of elevators absolutely everywhere in Seoul, Hong Kong, and Tokyo.
I don't even know how a person would begin a study on working elevators. I guess it would have to be involved with population numbers and almost all cities, particularly in Asia, are filled with lifts absolutely everywhere. Many buildings in Seoul didn't have lifts, and you'd have to walk up the flights of stairs - i.e. usually if they had more than 3-4 floors, they had a lift, but if less than, they might not.
Not surprised really, given the number of smaller 5 to 6 story dwellings in both countries. It's what I was getting at when I thought you really need to be looking at cities with loads of smaller higjrisrs. Though the big cities in Spain and Italy are quite small compared to new York and the asian cities mentioned.
Not relevant to OP. It wasn't a question of per capita. Interesting though.
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