{"id":660,"date":"2018-04-09T12:27:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T12:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-mpp\/?p=660"},"modified":"2018-04-09T18:52:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T18:52:02","slug":"las-vegas-strip-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-mpp\/2018\/04\/09\/las-vegas-strip-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Las Vegas Strip: An American Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- iframe plugin v.4.5 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/cdn.knightlab.com\/libs\/timeline3\/latest\/embed\/index.html?source=1PSdwE1sB0ynmUgJ1AR-AtixUs4dLBsSbXfgBvWGo3tQ&#038;font=Default&#038;lang=en&#038;initial_zoom=2&#038;height=650\" width=\"100%\" height=\"650\" 0=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" 1=\"mozallowfullscreen\" 2=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Citations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Le Corbusier, Pseud, and C. Jeanneret-Gris.\u00a0<em>The City of To-morrow and Its Planning<\/em>. 1929. Web.<\/p>\n<p>Twitchell, James B. \u201cViva Las Vegas!: A Strip of Luxury.\u201d\u00a0<em>Living It Up: Our Love Affair with Luxury<\/em>, Columbia University Press, 2002, pp. 215\u2013238.\u00a0<em>JSTOR<\/em>, www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.7312\/twit12496.11.<\/p>\n<p>Denton, Sally., and Roger Morris.\u00a0<em>The Money and the Power : The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America, 1947-2000<\/em>. 1st ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. Print.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;LAS VEGAS.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File),\u00a0<\/em>Sep 06 1981, p. 2.\u00a0Web. 8 Apr. 2018\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>BETSKY, AARON. &#8220;FUTURE WORLD.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File),\u00a0<\/em>Dec 12 1993, p. 6.\u00a0Web. 8 Apr. 2018\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>Malamud, Margaret. \u201cAs the Romans Did? Theming Ancient Rome in Contemporary Las Vegas.\u201d\u00a0<em>Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics<\/em>, vol. 6, no. 2, 1998, pp. 11\u201339.\u00a0<em>JSTOR<\/em>, JSTOR, www.jstor.org\/stable\/20140439.<\/p>\n<p>Vinegar, Aron., and Michael J. Golec.\u00a0<em>Relearning from Las Vegas<\/em>. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota, 2009. Web.<\/p>\n<p>WHITELEY, NIGEL. \u201cLearning from Las Vegas . . . and Los Angeles and Reyner Banham.\u201d\u00a0<em>Relearning from Las Vegas<\/em>, edited by Aron Vinegar and Michael J. Golec, NED &#8211; New edition ed., University of Minnesota Press, MINNEAPOLIS; LONDON, 2009, pp. 195\u2013210.\u00a0<em>JSTOR<\/em>, www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.5749\/j.cttttpvs.13.<\/p>\n<p>VINEGAR, ARON. \u201cThe Melodrama of Expression and Inexpression in the Duck and Decorated Shed.\u201d\u00a0<em>Relearning from Las Vegas<\/em>, edited by Aron Vinegar and Michael J. Golec, NED &#8211; New edition ed., University of Minnesota Press, MINNEAPOLIS; LONDON, 2009, pp. 163\u2013194.\u00a0<em>JSTOR<\/em>, www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.5749\/j.cttttpvs.12.<\/p>\n<p>SMITH, KATHERINE. \u201cMobilizing Visions: Representing the American Landscape.\u201d\u00a0<em>Relearning from Las Vegas<\/em>, edited by Aron Vinegar and Michael J. Golec, NED &#8211; New edition ed., University of Minnesota Press, MINNEAPOLIS; LONDON, 2009, pp. 97\u2013128.\u00a0<em>JSTOR<\/em>, www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.5749\/j.cttttpvs.9.<\/p>\n<p>Heindl, Gabu. \u201cBin City, Las Vegas.\u201d\u00a0<em>Journal of Architectural Education (1984-)<\/em>, vol. 59, no. 2, 2005, pp. 5\u201312.\u00a0<em>JSTOR<\/em>, JSTOR, www.jstor.org\/stable\/40480606.<\/p>\n<p>By, VERNE G. &#8220;A New, Dazzling Las Vegas Downtown.&#8221;\u00a0<em>New York Times (1923-Current file),\u00a0<\/em>Jan 28 1996, p. 1.\u00a0Web. 8 Apr. 2018\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>BY, TRIP G. &#8220;FROM VICE TO NICE.&#8221;\u00a0<em>New York Times (1923-Current file),\u00a0<\/em>Dec 01 1991, p. 7.\u00a0Web. 8 Apr. 2018\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders, James. &#8220;Robert Venturi Denise Scott Brown.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File),\u00a0<\/em>Aug 18 1991, p. 1.\u00a0Web. 8 Apr. 2018\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz, D. G. (2010). \u201cThe Burger King Revolution: How Las Vegas bounced back, 1983-1989.\u201d\u00a0<em>Gaming Law Review and Economics: Regulation, Compliance, and Policy, 14<\/em>(4), 261-273.<\/p>\n<p>Borden, Iain., and Jane Rendell.\u00a0<em>Intersections : Architectural Histories and Critical Theories<\/em>. London ; New York: Routledge, 2000. Print.<\/p>\n<p>Renek, Morris.\u00a0<em>Las Vegas Strip<\/em>. 1st ed. New York: Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1975. Print.<\/p>\n<p>Moehring, Eugene P.\u00a0<em>Resort City in the Sunbelt : Las Vegas, 1930-2000<\/em>. 2nd ed. Reno: U of Nevada, 2000. Print. Wilbur S. Shepperson Ser. in History and Humanities.<\/p>\n<p>Rubino, Stephen. &#8220;11 Things You Didn&#8217;t Know About MGM Grand.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Thrillist<\/em>. Thrillist, 02 Mar. 2016. Web. 09 Apr. 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Brownlee, Venturi, Scott Brown, Brownlee, David Bruce, Venturi, Robert, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Heinz Architectural Center. <i>Out of the Ordinary : Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates : Architecture, Urbanism, Design<\/i>. Philadelphia, Pa.: Philadelphia Museum of Art in Association with Yale UP, 2001. Print.<\/p>\n<p>Venturi, Scott Brown, Izenour, and Izenour, Steven. <i>Learning from Las Vegas<\/i>. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1972. Print.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Methodology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Architecture is a form of communication, which qualifies human behavior through the built environment (Brownlee, Delong, Hiesinger, 37). Suburbanization introduced the strip mall as a physical barrier dividing race, gender, and class. The Las Vegas Strip propels this division using neon lights, slot machines, and set design to create the ultimate strip mall. With millions of visitors each year the Strip\u2019s enduring popularity offers incredible insight into the effects of suburbanization on American culture. I first developed an interest in the Las Vegas Strip during a Modern Architecture course at Trinity College. The course introduced the Strip as a culmination of decades of modernism in America. Its scholarly analysis took shape as the nation moved into the post-modern era. Entirely a post-war production, the Strip offered an extreme example of suburbanization. Suburbanization homogenized the American landscape using commercial retail in the form of strip malls to segregate landscapes. Las Vegas\u2019s extreme reproduction of this built environment along Highway 91 is a cautionary tale of dehumanization through suburbanization along all American highways.<\/p>\n<p>I learned about the Strip along a timeline beginning with Le Corbusier and ending with Robert Venturi. This portrayal was affective in explaining the Strip as a culmination of architecture\u2019s reflection of American culture during the 20<sup>th<\/sup>century. Le Corbusier envisioned a City of Tomorrow, which looked almost identical to modern strip malls, including the Las Vegas Strip. This is not a coincidence, as American architects used Corbusier\u2019s designs to build the nation\u2019s post-war landscape. Corbusier emphasized straight lines, skyscrapers, and automobile usage in a \u201cvillage\u201d that residents would never have to leave for any practical reason. Corbusier\u2019s treatise on the modern city persuaded readers by founding his theories in Ancient Roman design, which also emphasized grid cities. He sold his ideas as the carrying out of Ancient Roman tradition. This theme is prevalent along the Strip with casinos including Caesar\u2019s Palace and the Forum Shops. Due to this similarity I chose to include facts that represented this comfort in antiquity.<\/p>\n<p>Next, I documented major building projects occurring between 1970 and 1990 and moved on to Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown\u2019s <em>Learning From Las Vegas. <\/em>This publication complimented Le Corbusier\u2019s as a reflection of the ramifications of his modern city. Further, it presented the quite pitiful Las Vegas Strip landscape as worthy of scholarly inquiry. Venturi and Scott Brown culminate their treatise by foreshadowing the power of \u201cElectronic Expressionism\u201d on the American landscape. I chose to end with this fact because it ties together the three headlining architects and attempts to provoke thought on the current American landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citations Le Corbusier, Pseud, and C. Jeanneret-Gris.\u00a0The City of To-morrow and Its Planning. 1929. Web. Twitchell, James B. \u201cViva Las Vegas!: A Strip of Luxury.\u201d\u00a0Living It Up: Our Love Affair with Luxury, Columbia University Press, 2002, pp. 215\u2013238.\u00a0JSTOR, www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.7312\/twit12496.11. Denton, Sally., and Roger Morris.\u00a0The Money and the Power : The Making of Las Vegas and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-mpp\/2018\/04\/09\/las-vegas-strip-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Las Vegas Strip: An American Identity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-mpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-mpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-mpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-mpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-mpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-mpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-mpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-mpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-mpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-mpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}