Wow, this is the last day of my life that I am going to be 24, and I am spending it printing out the zoning codes for Las Vegas.

strip...or not?

heres how site documenting via google earth can be fun!

First Post: Vegas

Vegas has been done, is overdone and never done. It is the contemporary spectacle culture at its peak- phantasmagoria of entertainment + unpresedented urban sprawl. This blog is intended to catalog the research and thesis documentation of two students and a 21st century city :
Nancy Tang + Michael Manalo + Las Vegas

The goal is to conduct a post-critical research and analysis of contemporary Vegas and then derive two architectural hypothesies that will address its socio-economic condition or infrastructure.

Listed below are resources and references for this thesis research:

[Learning from Las Vegas- Robert Venturi/Denise Scott Brown/Steven Izenour]
1. VERB Conditioning: Architecture Boogazine
2. In The Desert of Desire: Las Vegas and the Culture of Spectacle
-William L. Fox
3. The Last Honest Place in America
-Marc Cooper
4. Neon Metropolis
-Hal Rothman
5. Dream Worlds: Architecture & Entertainment
-Oliver Herwig/ Florian Hoizherr
6. Terra Incognita: Vacant Land and Urban Strategies
-Ann O'M. Bowman and Michael Pagano
7. Casinos
-Ralph Tegmeier

References:
* The Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture (Manuel Gausa)
* Atlas of Novel Tectonics (Reiser + Umemoto)
* How Maps Work (Alan M MacEachren)
* A Guide to Esctacity (Nigel Coates)
* Mutations (Rem Koolhaas)
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