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- AIA Las Vegas' 24-hour Town Hall Charrette
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As you look out over the valley and see a brown smudge where the Strip skyline is, it is not hard to imagine or hard to believe that something needs to be done. The trouble is the something that needs to be done is everything. Start at any point and keep adding to it. For example...do most people know that Vegas does not get its power from the Hoover Damn? Start there. Mandate recycling...of course not manufacturing plastic bottles will save energy and oil etc..every item you recycle is more energy saved...how many apartments or condo places are set up for recycling? The Place I am renting had 6.5 gallon per minute shower head and at my own cost I put in a 1.4gpm..multiply that by 10,000 units and then by say 6 minute shower and see what you get. Millions and millions...yet. Yes there is much to do and all of us sitting at a traffic light in our monster SUV's are responsible for that brown smudge, and we best start doing things that prove we own the responsibility of our childrens future.
Social infrastructure and wellness within the community begins with the resident and expands to include the resident's family, the resident's dwelling, the resident's neighborhood and the resident's economic well-being - and expands once more to the quality of services the community makes available to the resident. In regards to Southern Nevada, what is lacking and necessary here, and what role is the AIA and local architectural profession taking in meeting these challenges?
Las Vegas is a social mirage... enticing all of us here for a week, a year or a decade... hoping to get lucky... we're betting on a good job, a real estate bargain, mild weather, more affordable health care, a new car, a new school,... a new life... we take the good with the bad... long commutes, traffic snarls, increasing crime, gated neighborhoods (more accurately gated real estate developments), few friends, less sense of community... some discover that their new life is a mirage too late and fall through the gaps in the tenuous safety net made up of churches, schools, and a myriad of government programs... all playing catchup with the ever increasing tide of disillusioned, discarded and disgruntled who no longer play... "chase the mirage"...
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