Learning From Las Vegas by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour

“A city is a set of intertwined activities that form a pattern on the land. The Las Vegas Strip is not a chaotic sprawl but a set of activities whose pattern, as with other cities, depends on the technology of movement and communication and the economic value of land. We term it sprawl, because it is a new pattern we have not yet understood.”

-Venturi, Brown, Izenour, 1977