An Action Plan For Downtown Las Vegas
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An Action Plan For Downtown Las Vegas
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Author : James McDaniel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
An Action Plan For Downtown Las Vegas written by James McDaniel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with City planning categories.
Las Vegas
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Author : Eugene P. Moehring
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2005-03-16
Las Vegas written by Eugene P. Moehring and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-16 with History categories.
The meteoric rise of Las Vegas from a remote Mormon outpost to an international entertainment center was never a sure thing. In its first decades, the town languished, but when Nevada legalized casino gambling in 1931, Las Vegas met its destiny. This act—combined with the growing popularity of the automobile, cheap land and electricity, and changing national attitudes toward gambling—led to the fantastic casinos and opulent resorts that became the trademark industry of the city and created the ambiance that has made Las Vegas an icon of pleasure. This volume celebrates the city’s unparalleled growth, examining both the development of its gaming industry and the creation of an urban complex that over two million people proudly call home. Here are the colorful characters who shaped the city as well as the political, business, and civic decisions that influenced its growth. The story extends chronologically from the first Paiute people to the construction of the latest megaresorts, and geographically far beyond the original township to include the several municipalities that make up today’s vast metropolitan Las Vegas area.
City Of Las Vegas Downtown Redevelopment Area
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Author : Las Vegas (Nev.). Downtown Redevelopment Agency
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
City Of Las Vegas Downtown Redevelopment Area written by Las Vegas (Nev.). Downtown Redevelopment Agency and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Central business districts categories.
Resort City In The Sunbelt Second Edition
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Author : Eugene P. Moehring
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2016-10-01
Resort City In The Sunbelt Second Edition written by Eugene P. Moehring and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-01 with History categories.
Resort City in the Sunbelt is a non-sensationalistic, scholarly account of Las Vegas from the building of the Hoover Dam to the construction of the MGM Grand Hotel. Historian Eugene Moehring provides a balanced view of the city’s urban development. Although a unique city in many ways, Las Vegas has displayed characteristics common to other sunbelt cities across the western United States—including underfunded social services, low-density urbanization with a heavy reliance upon automobiles, a sluggish response to problems within minority communities, a preference for efficient, business-like government, and a mania for low taxes. The gaming and resort aspects are fully considered, but Moehring emphasizes the city as part of the continually expanding sunbelt. From this important study, historians will conclude that, despite some of its unusual traits, Las Vegas is much like other western cities and therefore deserves recognition as one of the fastest-growing centers in postwar America. In a new and expanded epilogue to this edition, Moehring looks at the major events of the three decades leading up to 2000 and their underpinnings.
Downtown Las Vegas Urban Design Master Plan
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Author : EDAW Inc
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Downtown Las Vegas Urban Design Master Plan written by EDAW Inc and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Central business districts categories.
Reno Las Vegas And The Strip
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Author : Eugene P. Moehring
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2014-09-15
Reno Las Vegas And The Strip written by Eugene P. Moehring and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-15 with Social Science categories.
Eugene P. Moehring analyzes the development of Reno and Las Vegas since 1945 with special emphasis on the years after 1970. Major factors that shaped the development of both cities were the growth of corporate gaming and megaresorts and increased personal leisure and affluence. Moehring provides an engaging, informative, and readable history of the divergent paths that Reno and Las Vegas took over the past forty years. Reno, the nation’s gambling mecca in the 1950s, led the way, developing the successful tourist economy that Las Vegas later embraced. Through the 1970s the two cities resembled each other greatly, but Las Vegas grew to achieve global significance, while Reno slowly declined, searching for new industries to power its future. Moehring shows that the development of the Las Vegas Strip was crucial to southern Nevada’s success. The casinos, hotels, and entertainments of the Strip, and the workers they supported, formed a new urban center ringed by offices, residences, shopping, and a major university. In effect, it became a third metropolis, governed by county commissioners, larger than Reno and Las Vegas combined. Moehring brings the story of the three cities to the present day, examining lessons learned from the Great Recession and the efforts under way in all three metropolises to diversify their economies. Moehring makes an important contribution with the only current study of Nevada’s cities, focusing on urban development issues rather than social history or the gaming industry. As the service economy continues to grow, not only in Nevada but throughout the United States, Moehring’s work has many implications for urban studies and particularly the study of urban development in other metropolitan areas.
The Real Las Vegas
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Author : David Littlejohn
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1999-10-28
The Real Las Vegas written by David Littlejohn and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-10-28 with Political Science categories.
What images come to mind when you think of Las Vegas? Mobsters and showgirls, magicians and tigers, multimillion-dollar poker games and prizefights; towering signboards that light up the night in front of ever more spectacular casino hotels. But real people live here, too--over a million today, two million tomorrow. Greater Las Vegas has long been the fastest growing metropolitan area in America. And almost every aspect of its citizens' lives is influenced by the almighty power of the gambling industry. A team of fifteen reporters led by David Littlejohn, together with prize winning photo-journalist Eric Gran, studied the "real" Las Vegas--the city beyond the Strip and Downtown--for the better part of a year. They talked to teenagers (whose suicide and dropout rates frighten parents), senior citizens (many of whom spend their days playing bingo and the slots), Mexican immigrants (who build the new houses and clean the hotels), homeless people and angry blacks, as well as local police, active Christians, city officials, and prostitutes. They looked into the local churches, the powerful labor unions, pawn shops, the real estate boom, defiant ranchers to the north, and dire predictions that the city is about to run out of water. Proud Las Vegans claim that theirs is just a friendly southwestern boomtown--"the finest community I have ever lived in," says Bishop Daniel Walsh, who comes from San Francisco. But their picture of Las Vegas as a vibrant, civic-minded metropolis conflicts with evidence of transiency, rootlessness, political impotence, and social dysfunction. In this close-up investigation of the real lives being led in America's most tourist-jammed, gambling-driven city, readers will discover a Las Vegas very different from the one they may have seen or imagined.
Community Action Against Racism In West Las Vegas
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Author : Robert J. McKee
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2014-02-27
Community Action Against Racism In West Las Vegas written by Robert J. McKee and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-27 with Social Science categories.
This book chronicles Robert J. McKee's active participation in a successful protest action, led primarily by black females in the historically African American community of West Las Vegas, Nevada, from 2008-2013. The residents protested the closure of a main street (F Street) in their community for the expansion of Interstate 15. The community felt the street closure was racially motivated, with the intent of further alienating and isolating this already marginalized community. The street closure was one of many instances in a protracted history of events that further exacerbated race relations in Las Vegas. With only minimal support from the black church, courageous women mobilized their community from a neighborhood coalition into a successful community protest group, despite resistance from city officials and a racist backlash from some Las Vegas residents. The key players in this work were then-Mayor Oscar Goodman, State Senator and now U.S. Congressman Steven Horsford, and a host of local and state leaders. The closing of F Street creates an environ for McKee to discuss the current problems of race relations, urban sociology, city planning, social action, ethnography, and institutionalized racism.
Resort City In The Sunbelt
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Author : Eugene P. Moehring
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Resort City In The Sunbelt written by Eugene P. Moehring and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
This is an account of Las Vegas, from the building of the Hoover Dam to the construction of the MGM Grand Hotel. It traces the city's development, focusing on issues common to sunbelt cities across the United States, such as underfunded social services and a mania for low taxes.
A Future Look To Downtown Las Vegas
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
A Future Look To Downtown Las Vegas written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with City planning categories.
