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A future for Las Vegas, part 3
FromIn This Climate
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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
May 21, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
Positioned in the driest desert in the United States, Las Vegas is one of the nation's fastest-warming cities. In our third episode on its past and future, we focus on the time from 2000 to present, paying close attention to the ways its extractive industries have intersected with each other and examining the possibility of shrinking the city. In this episode: Nicole Huber and Ralph Stern, authors of Urbanizing the Mojave Desert: Las Vegas
Released:
May 21, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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