Neon Metropolis by Hal Rothman

“As in most western cities, the problem in Las Vegas is cultural. Americans regard the lack of a personal vehicle as a failing of the individual, their perspective itself a manifestation of the cult of the individual in American society. Postwar Americans grew up seeing the automobile as the primary embodiment of freedom and regarding convenience as a moral imperative, and these ideas persist at all costs.”

-Hal Rothman, 2003