If you trace these, and if you look at the blueprints, if you look over time, there is a clear evolution. And there is a total of 42 really large casinos that were built over the 70-year period, since the Strip was founded. So you know, I’ve literally come back into the archives and dug deep into the floor plans of all the individual casinos when they were first built. You know what I mean - going back to, like, 1941? Just these representations of the kinds of buildings, the places that were built on the strip, the scale. Kai Ryssdal: Without taking anything away from the actual writing and the work that’s in this book, the cover and the front-end paper are amazing. Al is a professor of urban design at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of “The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream.” Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal spoke with Al about his book an edited transcript of their interview is below.
But according to architect Stefan Al, if you look past the crap tables and slot machines to the architecture of the Strip, you can see the history of U.S.
The buildings on the Last Vegas Strip have changed a lot over the years.
