The island of Manhattan, whence the term is derived. Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York

Manhattanization along Brickell Avenue in Miami

Skyscrapers along Market Street in San Francisco, built during the 1960s through the 1980s. Brickell Avenue is the name given to the stretch of US Route 1 in Miami Florida just south of the Miami River. Market Street is a major street and important Thoroughfare in San Francisco California.

Manhattanization is a neologism coined to describe a construction of new tall or densely situated buildings seen as transforming the appearance and character of a city. A neologism (from Greek neo = "new" + logos = "word" is a word that although devised relatively recently in a specific time period has been ^[1] It was a pejorative word used by critics of the highrise buildings built in San Francisco during the 1960s and 1970s, who claimed the skyscrapers would block views of the surrounding hills. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable Building. There is no official definition or a precise cutoff height above which a building may clearly be classified as a skyscraper ^[2] Recently, "Manhattanization" has been used to describe the recent real estate developments in Miami^[3]. The term has also gained usage as a buzzword for recent high-density developments in Las Vegas, Nevada. A buzzword (also fashion word and vogue word) is a vague Idiom, usually a Neologism, that is common to managerial technical administrative Las Vegas ( Spanish: "The Meadows" is the most populous City in the state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, and an internationally ^[4][5]

References

External links

• Manhattanization.com
• Stop the Manhattanization of San Francisco