Asian effect on US skylines?

Give me your gut reaction on this one; it's pure speculation and it addresses values we may have ten years from now that we don't have today:

Asian skyscrapers going up (or planned) will soon exceed in height anything a US city has to offer. And the US has no interest in any race to the sky; US high rises are far more dependant on practicality and viability than the Asian showcases which are often built with the prestige of their nations in mind with the formula Height=Prestige.

What effect will the US exit from the height race have on the skylines of American cities?

With no desire to match the height of Asian (or other developing parts of the world) skylines, will height become less of a factor in the planning of a high profile building? In other words, with the giants going up in Asia, will Americans lose some of that desire to build our skylines upward, realizing that:

• we're never be as tall as Asia....and that's o.k.

• aestetically, our skylines don't depend on increasingly higher elevation to make them attractive...or to make our cities great. As in.......Height does not necessarily have to indicate greatness in our cities.>