Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century

Hal K. Rothman

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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. Aztlan 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

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