1.   Although it has its share of new skyscrapers, it has been overtaken by Atlanta and Nashville and Charlotte, the economic capitals of the New South.

2.   And I am bewildered beneath strange new skyscrapers in a downtown I used to navigate with ease and without fear.

3.   A change in city zoning, made to shift new development to the west side of midtown, encouraged the proliferation of new skyscrapers all along Broadway.

4.   A new skyscraper in Penang, Malaysia, combines air-conditioning and natural ventilation, including balconies.

5.   But across the river, a new skyscraper city is adding a building a month.

6.   But that will require a trek back to Perimeter Center, where Mirant is based in a gleaming new skyscraper near a MARTA station.

7.   But there is already concern over how a new skyscraper would affect nearby landmarks like the Wrigley Building.

8.   Construction of the towers is now on hold, because the last thing midtown Manhattan needs is four new empty skyscrapers.

9.   It is painful, of course, to make that skyward stretch each time a new skyscraper takes shape and towers over its neighbors.

10.   Nowhere is the transformation of Iowa more striking than in Des Moines, with its numerous new skyscrapers bolstering its effort to become an urban center of the Midwest.