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The Essential: The Inquiry: Can We Quake-Proof A City?

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Can We Quake-Proof A City?

23/03/2016 GMT

The Inquiry: Can We Quake-Proof A City?

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Architect David Malott on his plan for a mile-high quake-resistant building

Architect David Malott on his plan for a mile-high quake-resistant building.

Architect David Malott has designed some of the world’s tallest buildings. In this excerpt from The Inquiry, he explains his plan to build a mile-high tower in Tokyo – an earthquake zone. He says tall towers are safer in an earthquake than single-storey dwellings. This extract includes audio from a visualisation of earthquakes in Japan by Solarwatcher.net.

(Photo: Japan's highest mountain Mount Fuji is seen behind the skyline of the Shinjuku, Tokyo at sunset)

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