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The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream (The MIT Press) by Stefan Al is a book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream (The MIT Press) about?
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, followed by replicas of Venetian canals, New York skyscrap
- Author
- Stefan Al
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262338226
- Subjects
- Art, History, Architecture
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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