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

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

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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.

Author: David Schwartz G
Format: Paperback, 256 pages, 152mm x 229mm, 470 g
Published: 2003, Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: Social Issues, Services & Welfare

Vendor: Secondhand Stock
SKU: 9780415935579-SECONDHAND
Categories: All Best Sellers - Individual titles newsystem in stock Only One Copy Second-hand Books Social Sciences
Tags: Anthropology Health - illness and addiction social aspects July-2025 NewSystem Paperback Secondhand Social groups - communities and identities United States of America - USA
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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.