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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 skyscrapers, and the Eiffel Tower. (It might be noted that forty-two million people visited Las Vegas in 2015żten million more than visited the real Paris.) More recently, the Strip decided to get classy, with casinos designed by famous architects and zillion-dollar collections of art. Las Vegas became the "implosion capital of the worldż as developers, driven by competition, got rid of the old to make way for the newżoffering a non-metaphorical definition of "creative destruction.ż In The Strip, Stefan Al examines the many transformations of the Las Vegas Strip, arguing that they mirror transformations in America itself. The Strip is not, as popularly supposed, a display of architectural freaks but representative of architectural trends and a record of social, cultural, and economic change.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku The arts Architecture Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc

• Pełny tytuł: Strip
• Podtytuł: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream
• Autor: Stefan Al
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Twarda
• Liczba stron: 272
• EAN: 9780262035743
• ISBN: 026203574X
• ID: 14423270
• Wydawca: MIT Press Ltd
• Waga: 1006 g
• Wymiary: 332 × 322 × 23 mm
• Data wydania: 03. March 2017

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