Las Vegas , Architecture, Travel Guide

Francis Anderton and John Chase , Las Vegas (Ellipsis, UK). Beautifully written, highly intelligent pocket book that describes and illustrates every major building in the Las Vegas of 1996.

Alan Hess , Viva Las Vegas (Chronicle). A comprehensive, lovingly illustrated survey of Las Vegas's architectural history, which consistently throws fascinating sidelights on the development of the city.

Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steve Izenour , Learning From Las Vegas (MIT Press). Seminal architectural treatise that was in 1972 the first work to hail the Strip as something new and intriguing, and introduced the great debate between "ducks" and "decorated sheds" to the aesthetics of Las Vegas.