This led to zoning that separated housing, workplaces and recreation from each other, helping to drive to the urban sprawl of cities like Los Angeles, Phoenix and Las Vegas and the car dependency ...

Las Vegas faces a growing housing crisis as costs soar and affordable options vanish. State efforts are underway, but deeper ...

Native animals like beavers, hornbills, and even platypuses are being reintroduced into city parks, wetlands and reserves ...

Las Vegas is surrounded by public lands used by ... The latest excuse for this urban sprawl is affordable housing and economic development. Sprawl pollutes our air, destroys open space (including ...

“Urban sprawl will not solve the housing crisis ... from the auction of about 18,000 acres of public land in the Las Vegas Valley since SNPLMA was enacted in 1998. But not all environmental ...

But environmentalists warn water supplies could run dry within the next 50 years; while urban sprawl is out of control and development is encroaching on protected areas. No matter how you arrive in ...

The pipeline is an essential piece of Cortez Masto’s plan to extend the Las Vegas urban footprint south to the California ... as mitigation for other public lands sold off for Las Vegas sprawl. The ...

Desert summers are getting more severe, and Las Vegas’ urban planning isn’t doing it any favors. Sprawl across the valley ensures that heat isn’t felt equally in every neighborhood.

The vast suburban sprawl that makes Las Vegas such a fascinating young city also contributes to the urban heat island effect. Our reliance on cars steadily elevates air pollution in the Valley ...

One of the leading threats to the wildflower is urban sprawl outside Las Vegas. The Clark County lands bill, proposed by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, (D-Nev.), would allow tens of thousands of acres ...

The students had spent the previous semester studying the urban design of Las Vegas, including a ten-day ... meant instead as a cautionary tale about sprawl, a phenomenon that could be seen ...