This article documents a situation -- the assortment of riduclous Las Vegas street names -- that is simultaneously funny and depressing. Because of the free-for-all nature of the Las Vegas housing boom, developers often grasped at anything to formulate street names. While their decisions are comical, they ultimately reflect the broader nature of shoot-from-the-hip development that created so many problems for Las Vegas and the U.S. as a whole.
"Tupac Lane Welcomes You: The Street Names of Las Vegas" by Willy Staley
Published in the Awl, January 16, 2013
http://www.theawl.com/2013/01/the-street-names-of-las-vegas?src=longreads
Eric
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