Schwartz G Suburban Xanadu

The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-1-136-75740-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schwartz G, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Hobbies & Spiele
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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