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id
acadia03_059
authors
Colopy, Andrew and Tilder, Lisa
year
2003
title
Las Vegas Incorporated:experience +/- commodity = identity
Connecting >> Crossroads of Digital Discourse [Proceedings of the 2003 Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture / ISBN 1-880250-12-8] Indianapolis (Indiana) 24-27 October 2003, p. 431
summary
In a society dominated by image and the production and consumption of fantasy, Vegas is a modern Mecca. It is in Las Vegas that the image-copy improves upon the referent - with increased entertainment value and merchandising opportunities. The image of Vegas is everything, an adult theme park super-sized menu, with no going back to the value meal.