Data Studies

The Research & Thought Leadership division of the CTBUH performs objective research at all scales and distributes findings in the form of data studies that highlight critical issues facing tall buildings and future cities.

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1 February 2024 | Tall Buildings in Numbers

Interactive Study: Sea-level Rise Susceptibility, Miami

With sea levels on the rise, prevailing thought suggests such investment should not occur in South Florida. However, the City of Miami could very well be the best place for tall new building construction within this region. Aside from the advantages of building upon an already established city center with infrastructure already in place, a natural...

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23 September 2012 | CTBUH Journal, 2012 Issue III

The Tallest 15 Cities in China

With over 1.3 billion citizens and a rapidly urbanizing population, China is developing tall buildings more than any other country globally. Currently it has 239 buildings 200 mete...

1 June 2012 | CTBUH Journal, 2012 Issue II

A New Leader for Telecom Towers

With the recent completion of two megatall telecommunication/observation towers it is perhaps time to review these structures and also explain why they are distinguished from buil...

31 December 2011 | CTBUH Journal, 2012 Issue I

Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2011

The annual story is becoming a familiar one: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and now 2011 have each sequentially broke the record for the most 200 meter or higher buildings completed in a...

1 November 2011 | CTBUH Journal, 2011 Issue IV

South Korea: Past, Present and Future

As of the year 2000, there were only 9 buildings 150 meters or taller in all of South Korea. Just twelve years later, there are now 124 buildings 150+ meters in height completed, w...

1 August 2011 | CTBUH Journal, 2011 Issue III

New York City Scrapers

New York’s dramatic skyline, over a century in the making, has for years been the envy of cities around the world. From the very birth of the tall building typology, New York has b...

13 April 2011 | CTBUH Journal, 2011 Issue II

Tall and Urban: An Analysis of Global Population and Tall Buildings

Tall buildings are spreading across the globe at an ever-increasing rate. This study demonstrates the relationship between population and tall buildings across those countries and...