{"id":2498,"date":"2009-03-04T13:05:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T18:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2009-03-04T13:05:12","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T18:05:12","slug":"west-sahara-lake-circles-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/03\/04\/2498\/","title":{"rendered":"West Sahara Lake Circles Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last night, after watching the video in my previous posting<\/a>, I decided to look around the satellite\/aerial imagery of Las Vegas to gauge the level of sprawl. Upon further inspection I discovered how much of Las Vegas is composed of large tracts of suburban, low-density housing. I knew there was a lot of this type of development, but it wasn’t until I started looking closely did I see the pattern<\/i> of the development. <\/p>\n

The neighborhood of Las Vegas that I chose to use for today’s map is called West Sahara<\/a>. It’s a large retirement community that allows only people aged 55 or older to be residents. I guess you could say that I’m happy that I’m not even allowed to live there for at least 27 years. But as I mused before<\/a>, will there be any water left in 2036 when I qualify to live in neighborhood? I jest, I would never live there– put me in the mountains or a city, but not in a cookie cutter house surrounded by only people my age.<\/p>\n

Anyways, I chose the location because it features one of my favorite transportation designs, the traffic circle. I might make a derivative map<\/a> of this location later today…<\/p>\n

View the Google Map of the West Sahara Lake neighborhood in Las Vegas, Nevada<\/a> <\/p>\n

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