Main entry:

Rothman, Hal, 1958-2007.

Title & Author:

Neon metropolis : how Las Vegas started the twenty-first century / Hal Rothman ; with photographs by Virgil Hancock III.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2002.

Description:

xxviii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-328) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Making money -- Inventing modern Las Vegas ; It's hard to be Elvis in Las Vegas : entertainment in the malleable metropolis ; Last Detroit : the new service economy ; Freedom and limits in a city of pleasure -- Filling Las Vegas -- New emigrant trail ; Face of the future ; Aztlan in neon : Latinos in the new city -- Building a new city -- Tortoise and the air : life in a Libertarian desert ; Rolling to a stop : the weight of traffic ; Instant metropolis : building a city without basements or closets ; Community from nothingness : neighborhoods of affinity -- Epilogue.
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Resources:
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415926122 (acid-free paper)
9780415926126 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Cities and towns Nevada Las Vegas Growth.
Villes Nevada Las Vegas Croissance.
Economic history
Social conditions
Travel
Stadtentwicklung
Toerisme.
Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
Economische ontwikkeling.
Las Vegas (Nev.) Description and travel.
Las Vegas (Nev.) Social conditions.
Las Vegas (Nev.) Economic conditions.
Las Vegas (Nev.) Social conditions 20th century.
Las Vegas (Nev.) Social life and customs 20th century.
Las Vegas (Nev.) Economic conditions 20th century.
Las Vegas (Nev.) History.
Nevada Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nev.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 221809
Call No.: F849.L35 R6 2002
Status: Available