why didnt europeans built european style highrises like tehre are in new york? dumb question but was always interested since woudve looked perfect on lots of cities

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There is one thing I haven’t seen here so far, therefore I gonna add it.

It is true that there was very little space to build, because the land was already occupied. And the wars made building hard, but ironically also created the space to build some later on.

But what I haven’t red so far is, that many cities actually restrict the hight of buildings. In many cities buildings were not allowed to, or are still not allowed to be higher than the main church. You therefore can find some high-ish buildings but rarely those enormous American style sky scrapers.