Skyscrapers

These high buildings are good because populations are increasing and more and more land is needed for them. It is too bad to use this land for houses because it is better to use it for farms to grow food. For this reason the skyscrapers are good because many people can live in small amounts of land. The buildings are high with many floors so hundreds of people can live in them. These kinds of buildings are also good for business and offices. Skyscrapers can have shops on the lower floors and offices on the higher floors. Some are used for different purposes. For example, a new skyscraper in Montreal has the bottom floors for a hotel and the higher floors for apartments. The best place in the world to see skyscrapers today is in Dubai. They are everywhere and some of them are really interesting looking. The tallest building in the world is now the Burj Dubai.

The bad side of building skyscrapers is that they make hundreds of people live too close together. No one has gardens or places for the children to play. I think it must be hard to live as a child in a skyscraper. Where do you play? These buildings are also expensive to live in or to have an office in. If a problem comes the building can be a sick building which means that the air is bad and people get sick. Disease moves from one apartment to another. In emergency situations people cannot leave quickly. You cannot get in an elevator if the building is on fire.