Slate Money - The Supertall Episode
Slate Money
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by author and architect, Stefan Al to talk all about skyscrapers and his new book, Supertall.
They talk about the human desire to build tall buildings (and the backlash to them), why parts of New York don’t work, but Hong Kong does, and why people keep paying premiums for apartments that sway.
In Slate Plus: All about glass.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the super tall episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance |
| 0:19.1 | news of the week. |
| 0:21.1 | This week we're going on going off news we have a very very special episode all |
| 0:26.2 | about skyscrapers I'm Felix someone of Axios I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios |
| 0:32.1 | Hello hello I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios. Hello, hello. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm here with Elizabeth Spires. |
| 0:36.0 | Hello. |
| 0:37.0 | But mostly we are joined by an extremely special guest. |
| 0:41.0 | Stephen Al, welcome. |
| 0:43.4 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:44.4 | A pleasure to be here. |
| 0:45.4 | Introduce yourself, who are you? |
| 0:47.4 | And what is the name of your book? |
| 0:49.0 | I think I gave it away already. |
| 0:50.4 | I'm an architect and also an author of super tall how the world's largest |
| 0:55.6 | buildings are shaping our cities and our lives. First we shape our buildings and |
| 1:00.4 | then they shape us who said said that? Was that Churchill? |
| 1:02.8 | Correct, yes. |
| 1:04.1 | We are going to talk about how the buildings shape us, |
| 1:07.3 | what kind of revealed preferences we have in buildings, |
| 1:12.2 | why so many super tall buildings are being built, |
| 1:15.0 | the economics of them, the environmental impact of them. |
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