North America 541 m Africa Europe

442 m 87% 2,076 Tall Buildings in Numbers ppl/sq. km 69% 374 m 335 m 1,866 ppl/sq. km 306 m 85% 280 m 74% 245 m 633 1,005 1,161 222.5 m 231 m ppl/sq. km ppl/sq. km ppl/sq. km 100% 100% 563 63% 571 67% ppl/sq. km ppl/sq. km Tall Buildings and Megacities 321 212 ppl/sq. km ppl/sq. km 29%

In this study, CTBUH undertook an examination of the populations, areas, densities, and several 31 13 6 9696 1 2 7 8198 19 Wilshire Grand Torre Reforma Carlton Centre Tour First Metropol Tower Istanbul Federation Towers Vostok Tower measures of activity in the world’s 45 “megacities” – defi ned as urban agglomerations Chicago - Milwaukee Los Angeles Mexico City New York-Philadelphia Johannesburg-Pretoria Courbevoie (Paris) Istanbul London Moscow with a total population of 10 million people or greater, consisting of a continuous built-up area that encompasses one or more city centers and suburban areas, economically and functionally linked to those centers. The fi ndings, also shown in the accompanying paper in this Journal: Megacities: Setting the Scene (page 30), are sometimes counterintuitive. While the world’s megacities have the 33,262 sq. km majority of 200 meter-plus , there is not an obvious correlation between population 24,132 density and number of skyscrapers. Vertical urbanism, it would seem, looks quite diff erent in local Moscow sq. km 19,002,220 34,588 Tokyo contexts. 12,091 (Kanto sq. km 14,160 Pop. sq. km - London sq. km 10,244,261 Incheon Region) Pop. 14,031,830 32,424 Pop. 2,695,656 Rhine-Ruhr Pop. Beijing-Tianjin 11,807 sq. km sq. km 12,073,914 Chicago- 11,970,050 Istanbul 40,594,839 Pop. 16,437,489 Milwaukee Pop. New York- Paris Pop. 42,797,000 30,907,175 Pop. 18,814 25,524,572 Philadelphia 8,808 Pop. sq. km sq. km Pop. Pop. 87,944 37,324 12,011 18,115 11,321,000 12,631 sq. km sq. km sq. km sq. km Wuhan Pop. 18,679,763 15,450,000 sq. km Chengdu 34,936 20,750,000 Pop. 54,880 Pop. Lahore 17,663,383 sq. km 50,302,212 Pop. 20,530,000 Pop. sq. km 21,455,656 Pop. Pop. 10,834,056 21,567 Los Angeles Tehran Chongqing Pop. sq. km Pop. 28,010 Nagoya 21,218,301 27,351 6,649 34,397,873 30,165,500 sq. km sq. km sq. km Pop. 9,353 10,088 Pop. Osaka 23,492,352 Dhaka sq. km Pop. sq. km 20,107 Cairo Pop. 15,562 sq. km Taipei Mexico City 23,500,000 sq. km 24,952,038 82,403 16,469,863 10,280,569 Shanghai- Pop. Pop. Pop. 11,317 12,864,745 Delhi 20,608,327 Pop. sq. km 5,209 Changzhou sq. km Pop. sq. km 64,899,778 sq. km 3,527 Pop. Hangzhou- Karachi Pop. 13,943,141 25,792 Xiamen Ningbo 26,136,721 sq. km Kinshasa- 13,271,392 12,273,352 18,885 Pop. Key Brazzaville Pop. Pop. Pop. sq. km Shantou 17,313 Pearl River Delta 10,660 XX,XXX X,XXX,XXX sq. km Kolkata sq. km 10,229 17,409 56,217 sq. km Pop. sq. km Manila sq. km 13,093,168 sq. km bubbles sized in relation to the data 23,556 7,249 Mumbai Hyderabad sq. km Pop. population of megacity sq. km 17,718,258 25,169,197 Rio de Janeiro Pop. 8,113 XXX m 12,678,779 13,139 12,373,088 Pop. sq. km area of megacity (sq km) sq. km Pop. Chennai Pop. 13,937,500 Bangalore 21,028 architectural height of megacity’s 29,740,692 8,052 sq. km 18,051,200 Pop. Bangkok Pop. tallest 200 m+ building (if one exists) Pop. sq. km Sao Paolo Ho Chi Minh XX% percentage of 200 m+ 15,333,035 22,017 875 buildings completed (black) Johannesburg- Pop. sq. km 23,724 ppl/sq. km vs. under construction (white) Pretoria Bueno Aires sq. km population density of megacity* each icon represents 250 ppl/sq km 11,134 sq. km # number of completed, topped Building Name out, and under construction Megacity 200 m+ buildings in megacity Note: The building silhouettes represent the tallest completed or *The population density fi gures shown for the megacities in this graph are derived from topped out 200 m+ building in each megacity (only 28 megacities an averaging of density across the entire urban agglomeration, which includes suburbs, semi-rural areas and open spaces located within the existing administrative boundaries have 200 m+ buildings). of one or more metropolitan areas for each location. As such, densities are not necessarily 6,438 representative of any particular municipality within each megacity, or the typical density sq. km 28,424,717 found within the built-up areas of each agglomeration. Asia map at 60% magnification Jakarta Pop. 4,415 ppl/sq. km 632 m 599 m

555 m 3,102 80% ppl/sq. km 508m Asia 90% 438 m 83% 64% 2,162 ppl/sq. km 338 m 339 m 351 m 344 m 320 m 1,510 1,796 1,974 314 m ppl/sq. km ppl/sq. km 288.6 m 300 m ppl/sq. km 296 m 288 m 280 m 100% 247 m 264 m 975 247 m 1,154 86% 1,320 1,074 1,174 55% ppl/sq. km ppl/sq. km ppl/sq. km 70% 100% ppl/sq. km ppl/sq. km 65% 58% 843 607 761 61% 61% 525 759 639 45% ppl/sq. km 54% ppl/sq. km ppl/sq. km ppl/sq. km ppl/sq. km ppl/sq. km 42% 366 425 ppl/sq. km 29% ppl/sq. km 17% 2020 50 24 46 2431 7 46 36 8% 38 4 66 220220 90 39 41 6 29 2929 20 MahaNakon Tianjin Modern City Chengdu International Chongqing World Financial Center Shaoxing Shimao Crowne Plaza Bitexco Financial Tower Gama Tower Trump Tower at Century City Palais Royale Midland Square Abeno Harukas Ping An Tower 1 Landmark Tower Tower Xiamen Cross Strait Financial Centre Bangkok Office Tower Finance Square Tower 1 Chongqing Hangzhou-Ningbo Ho Chi Minh Jakarta Makati (Manila) Mumbai Nagoya Osaka Pearl River Delta Shanghai-Changzhou Seoul-Incheon Shenyang Taipei Tokyo (Kanto Region) Wuhan Xiamen Beijing-Tianjin Chengdu

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