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Re:Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco a... by dragonwriter on Monday May 16, 2016 @05:54PM (#11709947)
> In the long run, that isn't true. A skyscraper has a useful life well in excess of 50 years. If you look at places like Chicago

...they aren't like San Francisco. In addition to construction costs, I wonder what the effect of periodic major earthquakes is on maintenance costs of large buildings. And, particularly, the relative costs of larger vs. smaller buildings.

Re:Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco a... by vonmoltke on Monday May 16, 2016 @07:11PM (#11710326)
Doesn't seem to be dissuading high-rise construction much in LA.