Comments on: Middle East Skyscrapers.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:32:59 +0000

Yes, living inside the walls is for safety (no need to be sarcastic and insulting Pol x), but why build the buildings so high? Wouldn’t it have been much easier and less costly to extend the wall outward?

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:05:51 +0000

Romans could built high rise up to 8 stories too.

By: Anita

Anita — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:08:46 +0000

The wall is seen right above the lower greenlit doors. It’s only about 1 story high, which is why it seemed strange to build within the wall.

By: Pol x

Pol x — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:44:46 +0000

Hmmm now why would anyone want to live inside the city walls?

What there in particular or SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME?

God man, the world wasn’t always suburban sprawl, walled cities, or citadels was the preferred method of not becoming a slave or having everything stolen by brigands and barbarians.

Every city older than any US one, that is to say nearly everywhere in the world, has started as a fortified community.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:37:02 +0000

That’s interesting. Usually there are economic factors that cause people to build upward rather than outward; when land is expensive, that makes the extra effort of building up worthwhile. I can’t imagine that was the case here, with desert all around. Safety maybe? The wall isn’t shown in this photo, but it is known as a walled city…

By: The Foreigner

The Foreigner — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:14:42 +0000

Now, this is fascinating. If I remember correctly, one of Al Qaeda’s “justifications” for 9/11 was that skyscrapers represented “infidel” technology.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:30:30 +0000

They’re not really built of mud ‘bricks’, per se. The buildings are cob, which is monolithic. The straw in the mud is worked together and sewn between wet cobs so it drys with enormous tensile strength as one single structure, more like a sculpture than a brick house.