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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Taft, Chloe E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 28 halftones, 5 maps
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674970229; 9783110638585
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674970229
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Chloe E. Taft.

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.