Format:
Online-Ressource (377 p)
ISBN:
9781317958536
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Making Money -- 1. Inventing Modern Las Vegas -- 2. It's Hard to Be Elvis in Las Vegas: Entertainment in the Malleable Metropolis -- 3. The Last Detroit: The New Service Economy -- 4. Freedom and Limits in a City of Pleasure -- Part II: Filling Las Vegas -- 5. The New Emigrant Trail -- 6. The Face of the Future -- 7. Aztlán in Neon: Latinos in the New City -- Part III: Building a New City -- 8. The Tortoise and the Air: Life in a Libertarian Desert -- 9. Rolling to a Stop: The Weight of Traffic -- 10. The Instant Metropolis: Building a City without Basements or Closets -- 11. Community from Nothingness: Neighborhoods of Affinity -- Epilogue -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781317958536
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415926126
Additional Edition:
Print version Neon Metropolis : How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century
Language:
English
Keywords:
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