West Las Vegas is a city unfolded. Here, the map is the territory, but with better signage.

A 52 Pickup of urban planning, West Las Vegas has conquered blight by embracing it, by creating a soil too barren for weeds.

It’s 9 am on a Saturday and I'm alone on Tropicana Boulevard. Alone in a moving, city-sized sculpture of alienation where everything keeps its distance and presides over the alonene...