las vegas

Beneath the Bright Lights, But Not Talking Energy

15 May 2008 - 9:00am
Post Carbon Cities Blog

In a report back from the APA conference in Las Vegas, Daniel Lerch worries that planners are not concerned enough about planning for a constrained-energy future.

Like It or Not, Vegas is Coming Up

5 May 2008 - 6:00am
California Planning & Development Report

Despite planners' love-hate relationship with it, Las Vegas is a hotbed of great city-making, according to this post from California Planning and Development Report.

Preserving a Bloody History

19 March 2008 - 7:00am
Los Angeles Times

An industry is sprouting in Las Vegas based on the preservation of the city's infamous mob history.

Las Vegas' Hidden Monorail

16 September 2007 - 2:19pm

Los Vegas MonorailI was visiting Las Vegas for a wedding and, rather than blow my salary on the blackjack table, I was eager to try the new Las Vegas Monorail. As the world's only city-scale example of a technology that was once envisioned as the future of mass transit, the Las Vegas Monorail has seven stops along a route that roughly parallels Las Vegas Strip, with stations connected to major hotels.