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The Strip MIT Press Endorsements The Strip takes a highspeed transect down one of the worlds most important streets as it evolved from a cowpath to the Las Vegas Strip a tour which yields essential insights into larger American social dynamics William L Fox Director Center for Art Environment Nevada Museum of Art Finally the book that explains Las Vegas without reducing it to a caricature The Strip Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American The Strip Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream The MIT Press Stefan Al on FREE shipping on qualifying offers The transformations of the Strip―from the fake Wild West to neon signs twenty stories high to “starchitecture”―and how they mirror America itself The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West The Strip Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American The Strip Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream The MIT Press Kindle edition by Stefan Al Download it once and read it on your Kindle device PC phones or tablets Use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading The Strip Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream The MIT Press The Strip Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American In The Strip Stefan Al examines the many transformations of the Las Vegas Strip arguing that they mirror transformations in America itself The Strip is not as popularly supposed a display of architectural freaks but representative of architectural trends and a record of social cultural and economic change Al tells two parallel stories Review The Strip Las Vegas and the Architecture of the Stefan Al The Strip Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream Cambridge Mass MIT Press 2017 272 pp 63 color and 19 bw illus 3495 cloth ISBN 9780262035743 Is Las Vegass architecture a train wreck or a treasure Almost fifty years after Learning from Las Vegas consensus eludes architects and academics Book Review The Strip Las Vegas and the Architecture of For more information on The Strip Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream visit the MIT Press website Jeremy Senko is happily lost in the world of theoretical architecture and design He is forever a student at heart consistently reading experiencing and learning about the world he inhabits The Strip Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Als Las Vegas is a story of the American national identity and once youve bought in this compulsive read wont lose you a dime —Publishers Weekly starred review Reviews 03012017 This book outlines the architectural trends on Nevadas Las Vegas Strip from 1941 to the present The Strip Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Synopsis of The Strip Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream The Las Vegas Strip cast itself as the Wild West with saloon doors and wagon wheels and decked itself out in midcentury modern sleekness it installed twentystory high neon signs then junked them The Strip Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American The Strip Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream Stefan Al MIT 3495 264p ISBN 9780262035743 Al’s Las Vegas is a story of the American national identity and once you The Strip Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American The Strip Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream “Finally the book that explains Las Vegas without reducing it to a caricature Nearly 45 years after Learning from Las Vegas Stefan Al brings the history of this iconic American landscape up to date” Margaret Crawford

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ISBN: 026203574X
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