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Wednesday, June 01, 2005
New York Takes Over Vegas
Las Vegas, the home of New York, New York, a casino featuring miniature versions of many of the famous sights of Midtown, will will become the home of another New York City-based casino, this one based on two of New York's charming and increasingly expensive low-rise neighborhoods: the Village and the Meatpacking District. A knockoff of New York City's East Village — with its own version of the city's Meatpacking District and Washington Square — is planned for 44 acres at the northwest corner of Tropicana Avenue and Paradise Road. It is interesting that an auto- and sprawl-based city in the American Southwest, Vegas, is becoming more like the sensible, walking city of the old Northeast. Las Vegas has been criticized by James Howard Kunstler as environmentally unsustainable and socially stifling: He concludes after a short visit there: "So overwhelming was the sheer anomie provoked by every particular of its design and operation." It seems that Vegas will be taking small steps away from its current design -- if only for the novelty value that a walkable neighborhood would have on most Americans.- Posted at 6:05 PM |
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