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[wjfox]

This is more fantasy than realistic, but I thought it was interesting.

http://i.imgur.com/PsNp4.jpg

[Time_Traveller]

I like the big building that is Left in the background i think it's kind off looks like a weird version of the London Eye..

[Logically Irrational]

They should totally do it! It will create jobs.

But seriously, awesome. Though imagine the insurance involved. I can't remember where I saw it, but there was a proposal to build a roller coaster through downtown San Francisco. It would start from the top of a skyscraper and finish by traveling along the cables of the Golden Gate Bridge.

[SG-1]

I've actually had that as my background once a while back. It would be cool yes, but really annoying after a while if you think about the practicality.
A roller coaster in the city would be fun though, it could go through a subway system and back up around some buildings

[EVanimations]

This is more fantasy than realistic, but I thought it was interesting.

http://i.imgur.com/PsNp4.jpg

It looks awesome, but I think the original intent of the picture was meant as a jab at the London Eye (the giant ferris wheel). I hope cities of the future look like amusement parks!

[Nick1984]

As much as I like modern architecture like London's shard and eye, it just doesn't sit well next to the traditional buildings like Big Ben.

Beijing's forbidden city also looks stupid now with skyscrapers across the road.

[Time_Traveller]

London's future skyline in doubt

The tallest skyscraper planned for the City of London may never become reality, its lead architect admits - as a BBC investigation raises questions over the capital's future skyline.



From http://www.bbc.co.uk...london-20357816

[MarcZ]

I don't understand how London continues to be a world financial capital. It really has nothing advantageous over Berlin, or Warsaw, or Paris, or Istanbul which are all much closer to economic areas which are relevant in Europe. Like really what does the U.K. export except finance and services? Do they have manufacturing on a large scale there anymore, and their gas industry isn't particularly big either is it?

[EVanimations]

It's part of being a post-industrial society. The most developed parts of the world made the leap in the '70's and '80's from a good-based industry to an information service-based industry. In today's world, the most important asset to an economy is not the trade of manufactured goods; it's ideas, knowledge and information. Industrial-level societies like China, India, and Mexico are still going through their turbulent transitional phase from industrial to post-industrial. In America and Britain you'd be far more likely to see someone working on a computer in a cubicle than in a factory cranking out car parts to export.

As for why that helps them be more successful, I haven't a clue. Ask an economist.