Award-winning writer and podcaster Dayvid Figler has a unique perspective on Las Vegas that is rooted in the seminal architecture treatise, Learning from Las Vegas. In this presentation, Figler presents how recent developments along “Strip City” have not only ignored much of the lessons from pre-1970 Las Vegas, but that there is an arguable revolution to rebuke those lessons in contemporary architecture, design, and urban planning. From the disappearance of building setbacks to proposals to ban cars from the Strip to projects moving tourists through underground tunnels – the previously extolled interaction of signage, structure and the public is tilting towards irrelevance. Fifty years later, the inspirational and provocative analysis of Learning from Las Vegas may be poised to meet the same fate as many of the book’s highlighted structures.