The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream

by Stefan Al

Book Overview

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, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has decked itself out in midcentury modern sleekness. It has illuminated itself with twenty-story-high neon signs, then junked them. After that came Disney-like theme parks featuring castles and pirates,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262544911
• ISBN13: 9780262544917
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.0" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher