| Description |
xxviii, 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-328) and index. |
| Contents |
Making money. Inventing modern Las Vegas ; It's hard to be Elvis in Las Vegas : entertainment in the malleable metropolis ; The last Detroit : the new service economy ; Freedom and limits in a city of pleasure -- Filling Las Vegas. The new emigrant trail ; The face of the future ; Aztlán in neon : Latinos in the new city -- Building a new city. The tortoise and the air : life in a Libertarian desert ; Rolling to a stop : the weight of traffic ; The instant metropolis : building a city without basements or closets ; Community from nothingness : neighborhoods of affinity -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
"A haven for refugees from ordinary America, chameleon-like in its ability to adapt to the needs and desires of its constituents, Las Vegas is, as historian Hal Rothman argues, the quintessential city of the future. The first full account of America's fastest-growing city, Neon Metropolis brilliantly shows how Las Vegas gambled on the post-industrial service economy well before the rest of the country knew it was coming, and won. Book jacket."--Jacket. |
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Las Vegas (Nev.) -- Description and travel.
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Las Vegas (Nev.) -- Social conditions.
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Las Vegas (Nev.) -- Economic conditions.
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Cities and towns -- Nevada -- Las Vegas -- Growth.
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Cities and towns. |
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Nevada -- Las Vegas. |
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Growth. |
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Cities and towns -- Growth. |
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Economic history. |
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Social conditions. |
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Travel. |
| ISBN |
0415926130 (paperback) |
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9780415926133 (paperback) |
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