IT SEEMS HIGHRISES HAVE BECOME REALLY POPULAR LATELY IN THE STATES...

why do you think that is? same thing is happenning here in Canada, but reading through all the various state threads here condo projects are happenning from coast to coast for years the house with the picket fence was the ideal and sprawl happenned, than in the 90's we started to see inner cities coming back to life, and in this decade highrises seem to be the latest thing - especially putting them in downtown cores along with that comes or is coming the development of LRT's etc. in numerous cities do you think its because people in north america are starting to realize sprawl is bad why not build up? time is more precious for people so they would rather live closer to the action and work and give up the commute? do you think its the large amount of baby boomers who are realizing they don't need the big house in the burbs as the nest has emptied and want to go to a condo lifestyle which frees up time from yard work and such and they can enjoy their life more? thoughts - ideas...>