# Rethinking the tall building

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2015-07-16

architect-this-city, architecture, atc, athiscity, cities, design, iit, illinois-institute-of-technology, metropolis, philip-oldfield, skyscrapers, sustainability, tall-buildings, towers, uncategorized, university-of-nottingham, urbanism

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Back in February of this year (2015), [Philip Oldfield](https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/philip.oldfield), who is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Nottingham, gave the following talk at the Illinois Institute of Technology. [Click here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfkx39soIs) if you can’t see it below.

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If you’re interested in cities and how tall buildings might make them more sustainable, you’ll enjoy it. It’s filled with a number of interesting stats and takeaways, and it’s about an hour long.

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/rethinking-the-tall-building)*