ABSTRACT
There is, we have been told in an influential book, a lot to learn from Las Vegas. Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour, and Denise Scott Brown describe the strip as follows in their book Learning from Las Vegas (1977:20):
The image of the commercial strip is chaos. The order in this landscape is not obvious…the continuous highway itself and its systems for turning are absolutely consistent…the median strip accommodates the U-turns necessary to a vehicular promenade for casino crawling as well as left turns onto the local street pattern that the Strip intercepts.
