There have been so many different reasons as to why the use of skyscraper has become so popular in cities. For many centuries many people gave thinking to build the worlds first skyscraper. The main two reasons that they wanted to build these beautiful and massive buildings was to try and show their wealth and power or to honor leaders or religious beliefs. The skyscraper came about in the 19th century. The main two main reasons that there began to be a step in the production of taller and taller buildings was the development in the elevator. Now by this time they had steam-powered elevators that were good enough to take the materials needed to build these massive structures higher and higher above ground. In the 1880’s the biggest step to place to making the buildings even bigger and bigger and that was the use of the use of a grid of steel beams and columns that were strong enough to support any stress or forces put onto the building. They were forced to build up because of the limited space they had to build things and they had to reach a certain requirement for the business. Ever since skyscrapers became to be more popular and popular they needed to keep advancing in what they were made of because of the beating that the buildings were going to take to being exposed to harsher weather conditions. As time went on they also thought of a new development in how to make the building safer from wind and that was to build diagonally braced steel trusses between central elevator shafts and then moving the beams and columns to the outside edge of the walls to make it more sturdy. This is just a little to how the skyscraper came about but it is going to keep evolving because land is becoming more scarce and skyscrapers are a great way to take care of that.