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My Guardian Cities adventure in search of the urban planning of the Las Vegas Strip

Monday, February 9, 2015

The Las Vegas Strip isn’t in Las Vegas. You’ve got to understand that before you can understand anything else about this glittering, 4.2-mile stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard described by William L Fox as “the most aggressively branded and promoted concatenation of adult theme parks in the world”. It is also among the most visited […]

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Guardian Cities: A Stay in Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Las Vegas

Thursday, November 20, 2014

 “You have to promise not to drink the Kool-Aid there.” That’s what a colleague familiar with Las Vegas’s infamous “Downtown Project” told me just before I went out to experience this outlandish experiment in urban revival for myself. Certainly, the $350m (£225m) investment in businesses and other spaces in the city’s depressed core by multi-millionaire […]

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