With the numerous skyscrapers reshaping city skylines today, one can not help but wonder just how they manage to resist the horizontal force of the wind while withstanding the vertical force of gravity. Just what makes these structures so durable? What forces of physics are at play here? Read on to discover innovative ways and methods civil engineers and architects managed to make these towering structures withstand extreme weather and geological events such as high winds or earthquakes.  The history of skyscrapers  Due to the large number of people who moved from smaller towns to urban areas across the world, big cities sometimes struggled to accommodate this drastic increase in…