> Sure, but while you're at the office/at work/in your apartment? Yes, I actually like being woken up by birds or seeing an actual tree when I look out of my o

> Sure, but while you're at the office/at work/in your apartment? Yes, I actually like being woken up by birds or seeing an actual tree when I look out of my office window. I don't want to commute to a "recreational space" and I enjoy having meetings in cafes just outside, sitting in the sun, having a coffee. If you walk in between skyscrapers, you have about one hour per day of direct sunlight. > there's something very satisfying about looking out from a high floor on a tall building Only when your view is not blocked by another just as tall building across the street. > [The Shard] I can appreciate nice architecture. But I lived in London for some time and I also enjoyed the low-rise architecture that still makes up most of the inner city. The only thing that, after some time, annoyed me: Always seeing the Gherkin (which, as far as I know, is not even profitable). The picture on WP illustrates that pretty well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_St_Mary_Axe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_St_Mary_Axe > [The places where space is at a premium] are also the areas where people want to live. And here one should ask what made those places so desirable in the first place. Would San Francisco still be hip without the parks and cafes but with skyscraper next to skyscraper? I would doubt that.