Zeropolis The Experience Of Las Vegas Begout Bruce by Bégout, Bruce instant download after payment.

126 pages : 24 cm, \"Las Vegas, an artificial city brought to life in the heart of the Mojave Desert, is the ultimate urban temptation. The shopping malls, theme parks and casinos offer a dazzling array of entertainments and diversions. The streets and arcades are endlessly busy with visitors and residents in the state of enchantment wrought by this spectacular place.\" \"Las Vegas has always drawn those who write about the American malaise, from Tom Wolfe to J.G. Ballard, but Begout reveals the city's other side, adding a valuable philosophical dimension to the nightmarish, fantastic visions that haunt the imaginations of novelists and film-makers. The author draws minutely detailed portraits in the form of city scenes - portraits that are sometimes depressing, sometimes comic.\" \"For Begout, Las Vegas is the consummation of the modern city, the ultimate destination of our urban experiments, the great supermarket of the global village.\"--Jacket, Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-123)