Article: Las Vegas, Nev., Development Offers Lessons to Austin, Texas.(Originated from Austin American-Statesman, Texas)

LAS VEGAS--Jun. 2--From the window of a Southwest Airlines 737, southern Nevada is endless miles of flat, dusty nothingness.

Out of nowhere, rows of houses, apartments and shopping centers pop up on the barren, brown landscape, surrounded by a ring of craggy mountains. Buildings cover the desert floor as far as the eye can see, interspersed with verdant patches of golf courses and the turquoise dots of swimming pools.

This mass of development converges on a strip of towering hotels, mammoth even from 10,000 feet. An exploding volcano, a shimmering glass pyramid, fantastical castles, battling pirate ships and a Manhattan skyline sit within two ...

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