Barely a hundred years have seen this tiny Mormon mission post swell into a city of two million people.
Las Vegas (The Meadows) sits nestled in the Mohave Desert. Barely a hundred years have seen this tiny Mormon mission post swell into a city of two million people. Think of this place and you will no doubt picture the grandiose hotel casinos and all their trappings. Yet there is another Las Vegas; out there at it’s edge, where its ceaseless expansion encroaches on the yielding arid land, attempting to swallow up the vast desert that surrounds it.
The building boom of the 2000’s made Las Vegas one of the fastest growing cities in the USA with over forty per cent growth in 10 years. This created an insatiable appetite for new homes for people migrating here from all over the country. Developers met this demand by creating master planned communities, gated estates, country clubs, and recreational spaces. All with improbable sounding names; Tuscan Hills, Sienna Heights, Renaissance Manor…
For a short while the desert could sleep as the onslaught of this modern American suburban utopia took a break. However Las Vegas is booming once more and well on its way to becoming Americas hottest city as climate change takes hold.