Suburban Xanadu : The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0415935571
ISBN-13
9780415935579
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 30th, 2003
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
388 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.90 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
Illness & addiction: social aspectsSocial groupsAnthropology
Ksh 5,450.00
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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. This study locates the rise of the casino resort in suburbanization and its contemporary significance.
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.
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