High rise tower blocks, replete with lifts voluminous air conditioning and exchange. And pumps that ensure the toilets all flush and taps run when turned on. Requires two and a half times the energy of low rise, not needing to defeat gravity to stack, pack and rack people!

Then there is the congestion that invariably accompanies dumb inner city population planning density paradigms! That then combines to cost annual billions in lost production/profits.

And only possible when the planning authorities put price gouging profiteering, their cozy cronies and profits (theirs) before people!?

Solutions?

Much much lower energy costs and must be ethical and carbon free! No, if buts or maybes!

Monorails and moving walkways and escalators that allow folk to leave the cars at train stations which must have, high rise parking stations, ordinary folk can afford!

But before any of that is even possible there must be a clean sweep of the administrations and their spit lickle lackeys, who blindly built or ALLOWED the towers without including/incorporating the essential infrastructure and fundamentally pragmatic, MSR thorium power. And for inescapable reasons, they'll never ever see or admit!

The only reliable, affordable, carbon-free, energy provision, that fits the absolutely essential, energy-dependent, requirement, like a made to fit glove, is, walk away safe, MSR thorium!
Alan B.

The real estate and building industries love to see construction....

They appear to be some of the most ferocious growth advocates always looking for the next deal.

I'd be happy to see this industry decline somewhat.