Such a revolution has happened before, in steel: giantism once seemed insuperable, yet today plenty of steel is made in "mini-mills", which use scrap as raw material.
Although there is plenty of evidence that being big is an advantage in some service industries, the case for giantism is unproven.
The idea is that this will loosen the inner-ring-road ligature that surrounds the city centre, and encourage pedestrians.But some civic-minded Brummies are worried that in their latest plans for rebuilding the city, the city fathers may be looking back to the giantism of the 1960s, rather than replicating the more successful small-scale developments around the city's rejuvenated canals.
The phenomenon of giantism is common, while dwarfism occurs at the highest altitudes.
To the untrained eye, the British Giant may look like any of the other gigantic rabbit breeds that have outgrown their hutches around the world – but this is apparently a distinctively British take on leporine giantism.
The characteristic fault was "giantism"—the party's inclination to build on the largest and most ostentatious scale.
In his book, The Pentagon of Power, published in 1970, Mumford raged that the project stood as an "example of the purposeless giantism and technological exhibitionism that are now eviscerating the living tissue of every great city".
Es Devlin is a fine designer, but she and Turner have succumbed to the kind of giantism that marked their recent collaboration on Light Shining In Buckinghamshire at the National, which was rather like seeing Samuel Beckett reimagined by Cecil B DeMille.
For Long, repairing what she sees as the broken relationships wrought by the combination of economic globalization and corporate giantism is essential.
The merger of Disney and ABC raises questions about the drawbacks of giantism, and about whether synergy is as good for the public as it may be for Disney--about, essentially, whether Disney is too big, too centralized, too intent on asserting managerial control.
Sister Elspeth suffer from giantism; she's six feet eight inches tall, and even her face seems oversized.
