Why Europe Has So Few Skyscrapers

But what if you ignored all the cultural heritage and still decided to fill a European city, like Prague, with skyscrapers? First, you’d have to demolish a lot of what already exists there. This would lead to an angry crowd of people complaining that the city they know and love is gone.

Brussels has experienced this to a certain extent. There’s even a term for this phenomenon — Brusselization. Put simply, it means not caring where you place new high-rise buildings. Here is fine. Oh, sprout one over there too. Hey we could call them Brussel Sprouts. Or not.