Many thanks to Matthew for pointing me to an extremely peculiar 3,000-word Business Week feature on global architecture. If you want proof that the teachings of Jane Jacobs have yet to sink in around much of the rest of the world, then all you need to do is read this article, which paints global architectural activity as, in the words of the headline, "The Battle for the World's Skyline".

The word "skyline", to me, is closely related to the concept of zoning. Go to Sao Paulo if you don't understand what I mean: innumerable skyscrapers, but no skyline, since there's no zoning. But the Business Week article's authors seem to think that the best skyline, by definition, belongs to the city with the most and newest skyscrapers: