Or not, because there would be a lot less business transacted in Manhattan as well without skyscrapers and therefore probably less demand to live there.<p>But I&#x27;m not arguing your basic point. I&#x27;m just saying that you can have a lot of high rises and still have very expensive housing. Building more tall residential buildings may indeed be part of the answer to astronomical rents in a given city but they&#x27;re not, by themselves, the cure-all they&#x27;re sometimes portrayed as.