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width:32px;height:32px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: none; box-shadow: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/64x64\/mail.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-credit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"WordPress Social Media Feather\" href=\"http:\/\/synved.com\/wordpress-social-media-feather\/\" style=\"color:#444; text-decoration:none; font-size:8px; margin-left:5px;vertical-align:10px;white-space:nowrap;\"><span>by <\/span><img style=\"display: inline;margin:0;padding:0;width:16px;height:16px;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"feather\" src=\"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/icon.png\" \/><\/a><p><strong>FastCoDesign.com<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>BY STEFAN AL 04.11.17 | 9:00 AM<\/em><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.fastcompany.com\/image\/upload\/w_596,c_limit,q_auto:best,f_auto,fl_lossy\/wp-cms\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/04\/2-the-strip-book-excerpt.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"338\" alt=\"Sands Hotel Las Vegas, NV [Photo: courtesy MIT Press]\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sands Hotel Las Vegas, NV [Photo: courtesy MIT Press]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The Most American City Isn\u2019t New York, L.A., Or Chicago<\/strong><br \/>\nLong dismissed, this one city\u2019s design gets the credit it\u2019s due in a new book from MIT Press.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Editors\u2019 Note: In The Strip, a new book from MIT Press, Stefan Al\u2013an architect, urban designer, and associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania\u2013compares the evolution of Las Vegas to the cultural metamorphosis of the American dream. The following chapter is excerpted, with permission.&#8221;<br \/>\n*<br \/>\n <script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- LVBC BLOG RESPONSIVE -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3305383693358973\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8378569513\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Strip began as an exception. But increasingly it has become a rule\u2014in its holistically designed and multisensory environments, in being technologically wired and \u201csmart,\u201d in patterns of urban development, in financial practices, and in aesthetic tastes. For decades, Vegas marketed itself as an over-the-top series of urban stunts. But this seemingly outrageous behavior took advantage of fundamental changes in American society. The urbanistic role of Vegas has also taken a turn. The Strip began as essentially anti-urban, with inwardly oriented resorts located outside of the incorporated city of Las Vegas. Today, the Strip is a major pedestrian space with casinos that contribute to a larger urban experience. Vegas has now even become a model for 21st-century urbanism that other cities are seeking to emulate. Not only that, the city provides lessons for anyone called upon to create landmarks, attention-getters, fantasy environments, spectacular images, or memorable experiences. I personally witnessed the city\u2019s impact as an architect when Chinese clients for the world\u2019s largest tower, after a visit to the Strip, wanted the Bellagio\u2019s musical fountains. They wanted Vegas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>STEFAN AL continues:<\/em><br \/>\nFrom its inception in 1941, the Strip has mutated beyond even its own wildest dreams. In the 1940s, Strip developers dressed like cowboys, some packing real guns, built hacienda-style casinos that broke ground with moving neon displays as big as windmills. By the 1950s, casino builders replaced the wagon wheels with Cadillac tailfin forms, and pumped underwater Muzak into exotically shaped pools. The 1960s neon signs, as tall as 20-story buildings and as long as two football fields, were ripped down in the 1970s when the emphasis shifted to the buildings themselves, and chandeliers the size of trucks. By the next decade, the chandeliers had been replaced by a 10-story, laser-eyed sphinx and a fiery volcano spewing pi\u00f1a colada scent. Charmed by the world\u2019s famous cities in the late 1990s, Las Vegas built replicas, including the Eiffel Tower, New York skyscrapers, and Venetian canals. But in the new millennium, a mere decade later, replicas were out and serious architectural originals, which housed museum-quality collections of authentic art, were in.<\/p>\n<p>*<br \/>\n <script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- LVBC BLOG RESPONSIVE -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3305383693358973\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8378569513\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>If any city deserves the \u201cMakeover Award\u201d for the most drastic changes to its image, it is Las Vegas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/90109341\/learning-from-las-vegas-no-really\"> More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/index.html\">Visit the main pages of Lasvegasbuffetclub.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Editors\u2019 Note: In The Strip, a new book from MIT Press, Stefan Al\u2013an architect, urban designer, and associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania\u2013compares the evolution of Las Vegas to the cultural metamorphosis of the American dream. 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