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Conference Paper: The strip: Las Vegas and the ruination of spectacle
| Title | The strip: Las Vegas and the ruination of spectacle |
|---|---|
| Authors | |
| Keywords | Las Vegas Casinos Symbolic destruction Iconic architecture |
| Issue Date | 2011 |
| Publisher | Association of American Geographers. |
| Citation | The 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG 2012), New York, NY., 24-28 February 2012. How to Cite? |
| Abstract | Las Vegas is known as the implosion capital of the world. This talk presents a history of the decline of spectacular casino complexes on the Las Vegas Strip. It argues that the intense capitalist competition between resort developers rapidly reduces the shelf life of buildings through a process of symbolic destruction. Since resorts on the Las Vegas Strip distinguish themselves symbolically, each new round of capital accumulation relies on the destruction of symbolic capital of existing resorts. A new resort either ups the language within an architectural paradigm, or causes a paradigm shift, which devalues the existing resorts even further. This is why casinos complexes on the Las Vegas Strip have such a short lifespan, and why the Strip has seen such a rapid succession of architectural paradigms. |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/164941 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Al, SJ | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-09-20T08:12:54Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2012-09-20T08:12:54Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | The 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG 2012), New York, NY., 24-28 February 2012. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/164941 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | Las Vegas is known as the implosion capital of the world. This talk presents a history of the decline of spectacular casino complexes on the Las Vegas Strip. It argues that the intense capitalist competition between resort developers rapidly reduces the shelf life of buildings through a process of symbolic destruction. Since resorts on the Las Vegas Strip distinguish themselves symbolically, each new round of capital accumulation relies on the destruction of symbolic capital of existing resorts. A new resort either ups the language within an architectural paradigm, or causes a paradigm shift, which devalues the existing resorts even further. This is why casinos complexes on the Las Vegas Strip have such a short lifespan, and why the Strip has seen such a rapid succession of architectural paradigms. | - |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Association of American Geographers. | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, AAG 2012 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Las Vegas | - |
| dc.subject | Casinos | - |
| dc.subject | Symbolic destruction | - |
| dc.subject | Iconic architecture | - |
| dc.title | The strip: Las Vegas and the ruination of spectacle | en_US |
| dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_US |
| dc.identifier.email | Al, SJ: stefanal@hku.hk | en_US |
| dc.identifier.authority | Al, SJ=rp01301 | en_US |
| dc.description.nature | link_to_OA_fulltext | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 209661 | en_US |
| dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
| dc.description.other | The 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG 2012), New York, NY., 24-28 February 2012. | - |