CASE STUDY 18 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Marketing library resources remains an important issue despite library reductions in staff and collections budgets. In order to maintain or expand marketing programs, libraries could do well tapping into the expertise available through the vendors supplying resources to libraries. A case study of a library marketing program called, “Vendor of the Month,” at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas explains the collaboration between the library and its vendors to increase awareness and use of selected electronic resources.

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Costs and Consequences of Traffic Fines and Fees: A Case Study of Open Warrants in Las Vegas, Nevada

Social Sciences ◽

10.3390/socsci10110440 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (11) ◽

pp. 440

Author(s):

Foster Kamanga ◽

Virginia Smercina ◽

Barbara G. Brents ◽

Daniel Okamura ◽

Vincent Fuentes

Keyword(s):

Las Vegas ◽

State Legislators ◽

Descriptive Statistics ◽

Traffic Stops ◽

Us States ◽

Marginalized Communities ◽

Vehicle Registration ◽

Traffic Violations ◽

Municipal Court

Traffic stops and tickets often have far-reaching consequences for poor and marginalized communities, yet resulting fines and fees increasingly fund local court systems. This paper critically explores who bears the brunt of traffic fines and fees in Nevada, historically one of the fastest growing and increasingly diverse states in the nation, and one of thirteen US states to prosecute minor traffic violations as criminal misdemeanors rather than civil infractions. Drawing on legislative histories, we find that state legislators in Nevada increased fines and fees to raise revenues. Using descriptive statistics to analyze the 2012–2020 open arrest warrants extracted from the Las Vegas Municipal Court, we find that 58.6% of all open warrants are from failure to pay tickets owing to administrative-related offenses—vehicle registration and maintenance, no license or plates, or no insurance. Those issued warrants for failure to pay are disproportionately for people who are Black and from the poorest areas in the region. Ultimately, the Nevada system of monetary traffic sanctions criminalizes poverty and reinforces racial disparities.

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Fits-and-Starts: The Changing Nature of the Material City

Urban Planning ◽

10.17645/up.v7i1.4501 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 56-71

Author(s):

Aseem Inam

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

21St Century ◽

Las Vegas ◽

Human Perception ◽

Urban Change ◽

Environmental Costs ◽

Review Of The Literature ◽

Early 21St Century ◽

Space And Time

How and why does the material city in the late 20th and early 21st century change? This article examines one type of prominent urban change, which is “fits-and-starts” and represents change that is concentrated in space and time and that nonetheless has longer term repercussions with high economic and environmental costs. Through a review of the literature and an illuminating case study in Las Vegas, this article reveals how human perception and decision-making via two interrelated phenomena, future speculation and manufactured obsolescence, drive such change. The case study in Las Vegas is particularly fascinating because as a city of apparent extremes, it not only reveals in clear relief phenomena that are present in the capitalist city but it also offers insights into basic patterns of decision-making that actually shape—or design—the contemporary city. The article concludes with more general insights into the nature of this type of urban change and implications for alternative types of urban practices.

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Military, Race, and Urbanization: Lessons of Environmental Injustice from Las Vegas, Nevada

Sociological Perspectives ◽

10.1177/0731121420946776 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 073112142094677

Author(s):

Camila H. Alvarez

Keyword(s):

Environmental Health ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Las Vegas ◽

Environmental Injustice ◽

Additional Increase ◽

Spatial Error ◽

Census Tracts ◽

The Military ◽

Environmental Inequalities

Environmental justice scholarship argues state power perpetrates environmental inequalities, but less is known about the U.S. Military’s impact on local urban environmental inequalities. To evaluate the role of the military in contributing to environmental health disparities, I draw on the case study of Las Vegas, Nevada, a southwestern city with active military sites. The analysis uses environmental health, demographic, and Geographic Information System (GIS) data from federal and county agencies. Findings from spatial error models support environmental inequality and treadmill of destruction hypotheses by demonstrating that census tracts in closer proximity to military areas have greater estimated cancer risk from air toxics. Census tracts with a higher percent of poor and Latinx residents, independent of their proximity to military areas, have an additional increase in exposure to air pollution. The case study of Las Vegas offers important lessons of environmental injustice on Latinx environmental health vulnerability and military sites in urban areas.

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National Evaluation of Weed and Seed: Las Vegas Case Study

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e522912006-001 ◽

1999 ◽

Author(s):

Scott Decker ◽

Terence Dunworth ◽

Gregory Mills ◽

Kristen Jacoby

Keyword(s):

Las Vegas

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A Case Study of the National Hockey League: The Question of Expansion

Case Studies in Sport Management ◽

10.1123/cssm.2015-0020 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 17-23

Author(s):

Alicia Cintron ◽

Jeffrey F. Levine ◽

Marion E. Hambrick

Keyword(s):

North American ◽

Kansas City ◽

Las Vegas ◽

National Hockey League ◽

Quebec City ◽

The Future ◽

American Cities

At the upcoming National Hockey League (NHL) owners’ meeting in Boca Raton, Florida, team owners are meeting to discuss franchise expansion. League executives believe adding two new franchises would increase viewership and popularity, generate higher revenues, and balance the Eastern and Western Conferences. However, it is unclear whether viable markets for two new franchises exist. Despite this concern, five ownership groups representing five distinct North American cities—Seattle, Washington; Las Vegas, Nevada; Kansas City, Missouri; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Québec City, Québec, Canada—have emerged as viable candidates for an expansion franchise. Given the five ownership groups, the NHL now needs to decide which cities to choose as the new homes for its two expansion teams, based on each city’s viability to host a professional team. Each ownership group will present a case on why its city should be the future home of a new NHL expansion team.

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