Vision: Viva Vegas

Overview

Vision: Viva Vegas is a public design contest asking Las Vegans, especially young Las Vegans, to show what Valley neighborhoods could become.

Entrants choose a real place and imagine a more distinctive, walkable, transit-connected, and locally expressive future for it. Drawings, renderings, models, and photo collages can all fit the brief.

Motivation

Outside the Strip and downtown, too many Valley streets feel interchangeable: the same strip malls, walls, and six-lane roads. Las Vegas knows how to build places with identity, but that imagination rarely reaches everyday neighborhoods.

Residents need chances to show what they want places to become, not only react to plans after decisions are already shaped.

Approach

LVBT will publish contest rules, categories, and a judging panel, including a dedicated youth category. Public design workshops will help first-time entrants turn an idea into a submission.

Winning entries will be showcased publicly, published on the site with credit, and carried into other neighborhood work when useful.

Activities

The contest will publish rules, categories, judging criteria, credited submissions, and winning visions in a public showcase. Youth participation will be visible, not tucked into a separate educational side project.

Winning entries and strong nominations will become source material for Picture the Valley, the Block Vision Project, public comments, and future design workshops. The archive will show what Las Vegans imagine for real places, not just what agencies have already proposed.