{"product_id":"urbanizing-the-mojave-desert-las-vegas-9783939633501","title":"Urbanizing the Mojave Desert: Las Vegas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBilingual edition (English\/German) \/ Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch\/englisch)\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlashing\n facades, high-end-casinos and neon lights—isn´t that how one knows the \ngambling metropolis of Las Vegas? But what picture does the city have to\n offer beyond the pulsing pleasure boulevard The Strip? \u003cem\u003eUrbanizing the Mojave Desert: Las Vegas\u003c\/em\u003e\n shows us the unknown, desolate side of Las Vegas and its environs. \nThere, where the suburbs in the desert encroach on nature and change it,\n the book reveals the surprising connenctions between the abstract \narchitectonic sculptures which mark the image of Las Vegas, and the \nspacious abstractions of nature in the Mojave Desert. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLearning from Las Vegas\u003c\/em\u003e\n Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown focused on the glamour of the Las\n Vegas Strip, analyzing the city for its postmodernist qualities while \nignoring the Mojave desert immediately beyond. Exploring the city at the\n same time as Venturi and Scott-Brown, the renowned architectural \nhistorian and critic Reyner Banham focused his attention on what he saw \nas the strikingly modernist spaces of the Mojave desert and disregarded \nthe postmodernist lure of the Strip. \u003cem\u003eUrbanizing the Mojave Desert: Las Vegas\u003c\/em\u003e\n presents neither a modernist nor a postmodernist view of the city and \nits environment. The text and images do not project ideals of urban \ndevelopment, nor do they solve social and environmental problems. \nRather, they present a hybrid landscape shaped and reshaped by practices\n of everyday urbanization for a city now characterized as the “first” \ncity of the 21st century. They offer a “third site”, exposing the \ncomplex but often interstitial spaces of everyday production and \nconsumption tied to physical and virtual place making as well as \ncontemporary local and global investment. This perspective reframes the \nseamless surfaces of draped neon lights, curtain walls, and landscape \nfeatures layered onto the Mojaveʼs stark topography, uncovering distinct\n strata that respatialize the social, cultural, and environmental \nimplications of urbanizing a fierce yet fragile desert. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nicole Huber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278954639611,"sku":"9783939633501","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9783939633501.jpg?v=1772490715","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/urbanizing-the-mojave-desert-las-vegas-9783939633501","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}