Learning Las Vegas: Portrait of a Northern New Mexican Place - Hardcover

Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0890135789 ISBN 13: 9780890135785

Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2013

Synopsis

Las Vegas, New Mexico, is the subject and muse of this provocative case study of place, exploring its history and geography, nature and character through explorations of town and landscape and encounters with Las Vegans.

About this title

About the Author:

Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is a landscape preservationist and cultural historian and president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies. She is the author of numerous publications including Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History, Writing the Garden: A Literary Conversation across Two Centuries, and Romantic Gardens: Nature, Art, and Landscape Design.

Review:

"No, not that Las Vegas! We're talking here about the soulful one, the one where place and people matter. Learning Las Vegas offers a loving and insightful portrait of a quintessentially New Mexican town, which it compounds out of cameos of scores of citizens--politicos, merchants, musicians, teachers, tattoo artists, hangers-on, and hangers-out." -- William deBuys, author of River of Traps: A New Mexico Mountain Life "From the jacket"

"When we speak of "a sense of place," what do we mean? What is it exactly that we sense? How do we perceive a place its nature, its character, its "genius"? Can we articulate certain inherent attributes that denote place and mark each individual place as distinct and different from all others?" -- Elizabeth Barlow Rogers "From the Introduction"

"Learning Las Vegas is like a strolling conversation with Studs Terkel, J. B. Jackson, and Dorothea Lange. Rogers combines sixty-five telling interviews with local residents, her illuminating read of the cultural landscape, and plentiful clear-eyed portraits of the city and its people to create one of the most penetrating studies of place ever." -- Chris Wilson, author The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional Tradition "From the jacket"

..". an instant classic of Western Americana. Learning Las Vegas reveals the many faces, aspirations, and also tenacity of a southwestern railroad boomtown that has weathered the storms of history, conquest, and injustice yet boasts rich traditions of culture and picturesque architecture." -- Elmo Baca, historic preservationist "From the jacket"

About this edition

• Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0890135789
• ISBN 13: 9780890135785
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284