I'm not sure you know the city well, at all. Most of it is dominated my mini-malls, shopping centers, and 'power' centers. Take Sahara Avenue, Charleston, Rancho...outward from downtown and the strip. It's nothing but one strip mall after the other. There is only one truly walkable section in the whole city, and that's downtown.
And, as for it looking different, it looks much like Phoenix or Albequerque, so I'm not sure why you're calling it different. I guess if you've never heard of the other two it would be different, but, outside the Strip, Vegas is any other sprawled city in a semi-arid region.
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