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Suburban Xanadu - The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond (Paperback) Loot Price: R741
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Suburban Xanadu - The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond (Paperback): David Schwartz G

Suburban Xanadu - The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond (Paperback)

David Schwartz G

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Urban gambling, linked to poverty, crime and corruption, was once considered a blight on U.S. cities. Gambling then followed the exodus of Americans into the suburbs after World War II and now 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 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.

General

Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 2003
First published: 2003
Authors: David Schwartz G
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-93557-9
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > General
LSN: 0-415-93557-1
Barcode: 9780415935579

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