Why are skyscrapers built thin, instead of stacking 100 arenas on top of each other?

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Why are skyscrapers built thin, instead of stacking 100 arenas on top of each other?

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Because real estate is priced in square feet but buildings are built in cubic feet

And so little real estate has contiguous ownership

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