Cities are dense, sensory environments that provide various stimuli that require
interpretation and representation. The embodied sensuous lived experience of urban life …

Since its beginnings, tourism has inspired themed built environments that have a
constitutive, and sometimes problematic, relationship with the “real” world and its …

This chapter highlights the historical and social construction of'Las Vegas stigma',
intrinsically intertwined with the popularisation of gambling and the rise of tourism. By …

Sense of community is an important part of life for city dwellers. I present an analysis of
community as experienced by local residents in Las Vegas, Nevada. This city is …

Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, a city that he loved, Jonathan Foster was forced to
come to grips with its reputation for racial violence. In so doing, he began to question how …

Names shape our expectations and experiences with/in place; they quite literally emplace
us. In the rhetorical tradition, places and names have long been recognized as crucial to the …

Community gardening is as much about community as it is gardening, and compared to
growing plants, cultivating community is far more difficult. In Community Gardening in an …

ABSTRACT A shifting American cultural geography, stemming from clustering of like-minded
people, has been much-discussed in recent years. The “voluntary region”, proposed by …

Bright Lights in the Desert explores the history of how members of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints in Las Vegas have improved the regions' neighborhoods, inspired …

This study investigates three research questions: first, differences in the temporal distribution
of commuters between the metropolitan areas of Las Vegas and other American cities …