In highly urbanized places like Hong Kong, whose densely clustered high-rises block much of the natural cooling from sea breezes, the figure is closer to 70 percent, industry experts estimate.
It was down a back alley, behind a bar, in a low-rise block of flats.
Every day the cranes swing and bulldozers clear another footprint for a high-rise block.
In retirement, in a high-rise block, he sat, surrounded by computers, playing the stock market for modest returns.
An incredibly long, red, mid-rise block of flats punctuated by archways just north of the city centre, it encloses schools, baths, a library and a health centre.
Rather than making the building an obstacle, let's turn it into an opportunity, so he doesn't have to turn it into a high-rise block".
Neighbors said that throughout the turmoil, their low-rise block, steps from the elevated tracks of the No. 2 train, was a safe haven.
What The Times described in 1919 as a "dead spot" is still that way, a rattletrap low-rise block surrounded by skyscrapers.
Others are worried at the impact the demolition will have on hundreds of asylum seekers living in the last occupied high rise block on the site.
Congress has many failures, but one of its most glaring is the neglect of this rising block of voters that is not loyal to any one party.
The fire spread to a neighbouring flat and caused part of the roof to collapse at the low-rise block in Tipton, near Dudley, West Midlands.
