Suburban Xanadu: The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond / Edition 1

Suburban Xanadu: The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond / Edition 1

by David G. Schwartz
ISBN-10:
0415935563
ISBN-13:
9780415935562
Pub. Date:
06/03/2003
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
0415935563
ISBN-13:
9780415935562
Pub. Date:
06/03/2003
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Suburban Xanadu: The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond / Edition 1

Suburban Xanadu: The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond / Edition 1

by David G. Schwartz
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Overview

Urban gambling, linked to poverty, crime and corruption, was once considered a blight on US cities. Gambling then followed the exodus of Americans into the suburbs after World War II and now, at the beginning of the 21st century, most Americans live within a four-hour drive of a casino. What explains the success of places like Las Vegas? The self-contained casino resort removes gambling and its social problems from cities and provides Americans with the comfort of gambling in a setting matched to their suburban lifestyle. In a detailed look at the growth of the earliest casino resorts to the "pleasure palaces" and riverboat casinos of today, "Suburban Xanadu" locates the rise of the casino resort in suburbanization and the significance of this development for today.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415935562
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/03/2003
Pages: 255
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

David G. Schwartz is the coordinator of the Gaming Studies Research Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. The Righteous and the Wicked 2. The Unwholesome Allure 3. A Fruitful Containment 4. Organizing Luck 5. Wiseguy Empire 6. When the Suits Come Marching In 7. The Casino Archipelago Epilogue: Odds against Tomorrow
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