Episode Details

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat spent 56 years cataloguing height records — then renamed itself the Council on Vertical Urbanism. Daniel looked up Jerusalem's Marom Tower on its Skyscraper Center database and found a much stranger story underneath: an organisation founded in 1969 by an engineer worried about livability, not records, now handing out trophies that developers put on brochures. Can a body that both chronicles tall buildings and rewards them stay neutral? And does its new "responsible density" language hold up against the tower rising next to Yitzhak Navon station? Key sources: • CVU About page — https://verticalurbanism.org/about • CVU brand launch, pillars of vertical urbanism — https://verticalurbanism.org/brand-launch/ • CVU FAQs on rebrand, policy role — https://verticalurbanism.org/faqs/ Episode 5931 — myweirdprompts.com/n/5931 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/003058)