{"id":8208,"date":"2019-02-23T01:42:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T01:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=8208"},"modified":"2019-02-23T19:40:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T19:40:17","slug":"urbanist-lessons-from-trip-to-the-southwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=8208","title":{"rendered":"Urbanist Lessons from Trip to the Southwest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robert Stark and\u00a0Matthew Pegas<\/a>\u00a0discuss their trip last fall to Las Vegas(Vegas Strip<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Downtown<\/a>),\u00a0The Grand Canyon<\/a>, and\u00a0Zion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Las Vegas as the quintessential Post Modernist City
\nCreating an other wordy aura that does not exist in mundane consumerism
\nCreating something noble or grandiose out of consumerism
\nLas Vegas as an economic rather than geographic concept
\nNothing permanent because architecture only survives if profitable
\nVintage Vegas and Neon Signage
\nIrony of historic preservationist dismissing architecture of value because it is a product of capitalism
\nThe pros and cons of private zoning
\nCasino Resorts functioning as an\u00a0arcology<\/a>\u00a0or self contained city
\nTheme parks as models for urbanism
\nThe potential for an urban alternative to over priced West Coast Cities
\nSt. George Utah, sprawl layout, and high trust homogeneous middle class demographic
\nAlt-Urbanist<\/a>\u00a0solutions that seek to recreate those attributes in an urban setting
\nSouthern Utah and Northern Arizona as one of the most scenic and geologically diverse regions in the world<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Urbanist-Southwest-Trip.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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Robert Stark and Matthew Pegas discuss their trip last fall to Las Vegas(Vegas Strip and Downtown), The Grand Canyon, and Zion. Topics: Las Vegas as the quintessential Post Modernist City Creating an other wordy aura that does not exist in mundane consumerism Creating something noble or grandiose out of consumerism Las Vegas as an economic rather than geographic concept Nothing permanent … Continue reading Urbanist Lessons from Trip to the Southwest<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[542,221,623,907,629,6,203,554,382,583,156,459,713,1093,484,12,548,1217,556,449,276,448,1191,624,68,1087,66,600,636,622,1007,694,627,131,132,555,516,676,1214,677,857,1215,681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aesthetics","category-american-culture","category-architecture","category-arcology","category-art-deco","category-california","category-capitalism","category-cities","category-class","category-consumerism","category-corporations","category-culture","category-demographics","category-disneyland","category-donald-trump","category-economics","category-futurism","category-grand-canyon","category-hipsters","category-historic-preservation","category-history","category-las-vegas","category-matthew-pegas","category-mid-century-modern","category-middle-class","category-mormonism","category-neoliberalism","category-neon","category-photography","category-politics","category-postmodernism","category-retro-futurism","category-skyscrapers","category-social-capital","category-social-trust","category-suburbia","category-travel","category-urbanism","category-utah","category-utopia","category-wilderness","category-zion-national-park","category-zoning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8208"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8666,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208\/revisions\/8666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}