The History of High-Rise Building and Category

This chapter outlines the high-rise building definition, category, and special features belonging to the high-rise building specifically. The chapter traces the high-rise building origin in a general description and expands to the rapidly booming high-rise building development in China. Description includes the detailed introduction of China’s building construction rising particularly for the last 30 years and the trend for the future representative buildings around the world to help the readers in picturing the timeline and events happened historically.