The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las VegasHal Rothman, Mike Davis University of California Press, 2002 - 388 pages |
Contents
Noir Naıfs Junking | 17 |
Shooting Movies in | 30 |
Peter Goin Discordant Infrastructure | 59 |
Eugene Moehring Growth Services and | 73 |
Electricity and | 99 |
Jon Christensen Build It and the Water Will Come | 115 |
Robert E Parker The Social Costs of Rapid Urbanization | 126 |
Union in Las Vegas | 145 |
Reflections | 187 |
A Reassessment | 243 |
View of Las Vegas | 291 |
Money in the Real | 307 |
and the Spread of Casinos | 347 |
Contributors | 377 |
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