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Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century
By (author) Hal Rothman
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""Neon Metropolis"" offers a panoramic account of contemporary Las Vegas, long America's capital of excess and now its fastest growing city. Combining a history of the city's growth via gambling and crime, with a descriptive social portrait of contemporary Las Vegas, Hal Rothman shows how the city has shed its stigma as ""Sin City"" and is now setting the pace for nationwide trends in leisure, work, consumption, immigration, demographics and city growth. Las Vegas' transition from isolated gambling outpost to its new status of ""the first city of the 21st century"" has not been without problems - rapid growth has been accompanied by sprawl, traffic jams, environmental problems and an invasion by corporate interests. Ultimately, as ""Neon Metropolis"" documents, the problems and opportunities facing Las Vegas are ones that, increasingly, confront all of America.
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published date | 22 Feb 2002
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 376
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 703g
ISBN | 978-0-4159-2612-6
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