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<title>Urbanizing the Mojave : Responses</title>
<description>Design Observer ::Â Join the Discussion</description>
<link>http://places.designobserver.com/feature/urbanizing-the-mojave/10807/</link>
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<dc:creator>Design Observer Group</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-12-01T13:55:32-05:00</dc:date>
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	<title><![CDATA[Responding to "Urbanizing the Mojave"]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Having just spent a month in Las Vegas on business, I thought this article was comprehensive and fair in its assessment of Las Vegas's boom and bust. To see the sprawl, the half empty Lake Mead and the empty or bust developments, it is a sad commentary on this country's excess and stupidity as regards our environment and economy.]]></description>
	<author>Paul Avery</author>
	<link>http://places.designobserver.com/feature/urbanizing-the-mojave/10807/#comments</link>
	<dc:date>2009-12-01T13:55:32-05:00</dc:date>
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	<title><![CDATA[Responding to "Urbanizing the Mojave"]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[A good and sobering article.  I used to live and work in LV where I was friends with the late Hal Rothman.  His book "Neon Metropolis:  How Las Vegas Started the 21st Century," remains well worth reading, even if its optimism seems increasingly misplaced.  An LV booster to the end, Hal was fond of calling the city "the last Detroit," by which he meant that it was perhaps the last major city in the country where a blue collar worker without higher education could expect to earn enough to buy a house and send his kids to college.  Alas, things haven't worked out so well in the Motor City and LV now seems poised to be not "the last" but "the next" Detroit.]]></description>
	<author>keith eggener</author>
	<link>http://places.designobserver.com/feature/urbanizing-the-mojave/10807/#comments</link>
	<dc:date>2009-12-01T13:50:26-05:00</dc:date>
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