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Review: Sun, Sin & Suburbia

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Chris Steins
24 January 2005 - 1:00pm

"Sun, Sin & Suburbia An Essential History of Modern Las Vegas", by Geoff Schumacher, may be the definitive work about the fastest-growing place in America.

"[I]t's not the dazzling casinos, caricatured mobsters or colorful history that interests Schumacher. "Sun, Sin & Suburbia: An Essential History of Modern Las Vegas" examines how what was once thought to be the country's most aberrant city has evolved into a magnet for America's middle- and upper-middle classes to put down roots. Part cultural theory, part urban studies, he documents the transformation of this notorious frontier boomtown into a modern Sunbelt metropolis.

...By the 1990s, 6,000 people were moving into Las Vegas monthly. Schumacher traces the unrestrained growth — such as the implosion of landmark Strip casinos, their replacement by mega-resorts and the development of wildly successful master-planned communities."

Full Story: From the barren desert, a booming metropolis
Source: The Los Angeles Times, October 26, 2005
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