Towers That Steal Sunlight

New research shows that the spread of high-rise construction over the past three decades has reduced direct winter sunlight in more than one-third of older urban areas, leaving about 16 million ground-floor residents with fewer hours of winter sun.

The results of the new research showed that the expansion of high-rise buildings over the past three decades has reduced the amount of direct winter sunlight in more than a third of the old areas of the cities, so that about 16 million people living on the ground floor live in areas where their winter sunlight hours have decreased.