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ANNUAL CAPITAL EXPENDITURE ON NEW BUILDINGS IN URBAN AREAS, 1953-57

MILLION DOLLARS

200

GOVERNMENT

PRIVATE.

150

100

50

1953 1954 1955 1956 1957

YEAR BY YEAR THE AVERAGE HEIGHT OF NEW BUILDINGS ALSO RISES

STOREYS

1946 1951

I

1952 1953/54 1955 1956 1957

1.78

3.15

3.58

4.27

4.75

5.67

1

1

NG PUBLIST 7

2

3

4

5

16

This diagram illustrates merely the general upward trend in heights of new buildings, and the positions of the climbers on the stairway do not bear any precise relationship to the annual figures for number of storeys.