| Description |
xvii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. 1: A significance for A&P parking lots, or learning from Las Vegas -- Pt. 2: Ugly and ordinary architecture, or the decorated shed |
| Summary |
Calls for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their erections of "heroic," self-aggrandizing monuments. Also addresses symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban sprawl |
| Notes |
Part of the Asia Pacific Design Library. QSL |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [167]-189 |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Nevada -- Las Vegas.
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Gambling -- Texts.
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Symbolism in architecture.
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| Author |
Izenour, Steven, author
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Scott Brown, Denise, 1931- author
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| LC no. |
77001917 |
| ISBN |
0262220202 |
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026272006X (paperback) |
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