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Introduction -- The tall building typology -- The potential impacts of tall buildings -- The emergence of planning frameworks for tall buildings -- Tall buildings in Liverpool : "balancing conservation and change in the maritime mercantile city" -- Tall buildings in Manchester : "while Liverpool thinks, Manchester constructs" -- Tall buildings in Birmingham : "the new image of the city" -- Tall buildings in Oslo : "the blue, the green and city in between" -- Tall buildings in Dublin : property-led regeneration within an evolving conservation planning framework -- Tall buildings in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne : "reconciling the past with the present" -- Tall buildings in Vancouver : celebrating "the cult of the view" -- Conclusions.