Chicago is the 6th most economically powerful city on earth, by my calculation, and it has 8.7 million in its metropolitan area. " The city is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, telecommunications, and transportation, with O'Hare International Airport being the second-busiest airport in the world in terms of traffic movements." It has 1,209 high-rises (buildings between 35m and 100m), and 416 skyscapers (buildings taller than 100m) , including 108 that are taller than 150m.
Chongqing (重庆市)
has about 7 million in its urbanized area, and almost 29 million people in its greater metropolitan area. It has 49 buildings taller than 150m, with another 21 under construction. " “Chongqing is “an industrial gateway that opens the country to its vast, rural heartland”; its “warp-speed industrialization and drive toward modernization” makes it not so much like today’s Chicago as that of the 19th century—broad shoulders, The Jungle, and all that."
See also: Chicago on the Yangtze
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