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American social history
Atlantic City
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Boss Gamblers
Caesars Palace
casino
Casino Floor
Casino Gaming
Casino Industry
Casino Manager
Casino Operators
Casino Resorts
Casino Style Gambling
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desert
Desert Inn
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Gambling Operators
gambling regulation
gaming
GCB
Highway 91
Indian Casinos
Indian Gaming
industry
inn
Las Vegas
Las Vegas Convention Center
Las Vegas Strip
Legal Casino Gaming
leisure studies
nevada
Nevada Gaming
operators
pleasure palaces analysis
resorts
Slot Machines
strip
Strip Casino
Strip Resorts
suburban casino development trends
suburbanization impact
urban sociology
vega
Wagon Train
Product details
- ISBN 9780415935579
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 May 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
David G. Schwartz is the coordinator of the Gaming Studies Research Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
