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From Steel to Slots : Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City / Chloe E. Taft.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) : 28 halftones, 5 mapsContent type:
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  • 9780674970229
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.4/77950974822 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Grand Openings and Closings -- 1. Order in the Landscape -- 2. Christmas City and Sin City Simply Do Not Go Together -- 3. The Postindustrial Factory -- 4. A Steel Site in Limbo -- 5. Landscapes of Life and Loss -- 6. What Happens in Bethlehem Depends on Macau -- Conclusion: Postindustrial Planning and Possibility -- Appendix: Note on Methods -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Bethlehem PA was synonymous with steel. But after the factories closed, the city bet its future on casino gambling. Chloe Taft describes a city struggling to make sense of the ways global capitalism transforms jobs, landscapes, and identities. While residents often have few cards to play, the shape economic progress takes is not inevitable.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Grand Openings and Closings -- 1. Order in the Landscape -- 2. Christmas City and Sin City Simply Do Not Go Together -- 3. The Postindustrial Factory -- 4. A Steel Site in Limbo -- 5. Landscapes of Life and Loss -- 6. What Happens in Bethlehem Depends on Macau -- Conclusion: Postindustrial Planning and Possibility -- Appendix: Note on Methods -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Bethlehem PA was synonymous with steel. But after the factories closed, the city bet its future on casino gambling. Chloe Taft describes a city struggling to make sense of the ways global capitalism transforms jobs, landscapes, and identities. While residents often have few cards to play, the shape economic progress takes is not inevitable.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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