03/09/2021, Filed Under: Lead StoryPoint/Counterpoint (Vol 14-15) Sustainable Communities and Energy Policy in America Omar Nasser & Peter Almlie Infrastructure in the U.S. Julienne Bautista, Catherine Jaramillo & Meng Qi
03/09/2021, Filed Under: Lead StoryExplorations 6: The Spectacularization of Urban Development on the Las Vegas Strip Kurt Kraler The Las Vegas Valley, a region where the population has doubled every decade since its settlement in 1911, continues to experience tremendous urban transformation and growth while political and financial forces sustain its economic center, the infamous Las Vegas Strip. As its population balloons beyond 2 million inhabitants,… read more
03/09/2021, Filed Under: Lead StoryExplorations 5: Marketing Magic: The Tourism Ministry’s Pueblos Mágicos Program and Historical Preservation in Mexico Gibrán Lule-Hurtado Mexico’s Pueblos Mágicos (Magical Villages) Program was launched by the nation’s Secretariat of Tourism (SECTUR) in 2001. It continues to operate under this agency, primarily as a program to promote tourism through the preservation and promotion of noteworthy natural and built environments in towns and small cities identified… read more