"In some circumstances, the choice to build high may even have disruptive political implications. The Petronas twin towers in Kuala Lumpur, designed by the same New York office that produced the Docklands colossus, are still the tallest buildings in the world in the year 2000. They were shown in a 1998 film called 'Entrapment', with Sean Connery, rising from a miasma of slum dwellings, which - so the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamed, announced, while publicly banning the film - were located in Southern Malacca, "hundreds of miles away." Wherever that scatter of slums was located, what really provoked Mohamad's ire was the reading of the twin towers as an image of social inequity, since, of course, Kuala Lumpur has plenty of slums to show.

Quote from 'The Seduction of Place: The City in the Twenty First Century" by Joseph Rykwert