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• W40071580 abstract "At the recent Annual Meetings ofthe American Sociological Association, held in Vegas, Professor Sharon Zukin, a recipient of tbe ASA's Robert and Helen Lynd Lifetime Achievement Award in community and urban sociology, was featured in a two-minute video produced by the prestigious Norton Publishing company. The first words out of her mouth were hate Vegas. She then proceeded to launch into an extended diatribe aimed at tourists on the Strip, whom, she claimed, migbt think that tbey are having fun, but they are not, and went on to add that Las Vegas is not a real city.' Wbile the stupefying combination of arrogance and ignorance contained in Professor Zukin's commentary is deeply disturbing, it is hardly new. There is a long, dishonorable fradition of drive-by jotimalism (and what I would call drive-by scholarship) where writers spend a few days in Vegas (or in the case of academics, send a squad of tbeir graduate students), usually staying in a hotel on the Strip, and then retum to tbeir hometowns to write an article or book condemning an entire metropolitan area of two million people as wicked hedonists, degenerate gamblers, prostitutes, and so on. It is crucial to note, however, that there exists an equally large literature on Vegas based upon systematic, in-depth empirical analysis. This growing body of work covers a broad range of topics, much of it conducted by researchers at the local colleges and university, including outstanding studies of Vegas history by Professor Michael Green ofthe College of Southern Nevada (CSN) and Eugene Moehring ofthe University of Nevada, Vegas (UNLV) and dozens of articles, books, and research reports on various aspects ofthe region such as gambling, health care, immigration, population, sense of community, and the sex industry.^ Though less prominent in tbe public eye, this scholarly literature collectively paints a far more complex portrait of Sin City. For more tban two decades the Vegas metropolitan area experienced an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity. Lavish new casino resorts, plentiful job opportunities (especially for those with little formal education), low or nonexistent personal and corporate taxes, and relatively inexpensive housing (particularly in comparison with nearby Los Angeles) combined to create an almost euphoric belief among many local residents that the good times would go on forever. The sense of invincibility quickly dissipated, however, with the onset ofthe current recession. While most Americans across the country are feeling tbe effects of tbis recent downtum, tbe citizens of Vegas have been especially bard bit. With the highest national rates in unemployment and home foreclosures. Vegas seems to have gone from boom to bust in record time. Many aspects ofthe town's current troubles, of course, are largely a product ofthe earlier period of explosive growth itself, whicb placed enormous stresses on local social and physical infrastructures (such as schools, health services, roads, etc.). Yet it should also be noted that education and health care were woefully underfunded even during the economic good times, as Vegas and the state of Nevada have ranked at or near ofthe bottom nationally in these areas for more than thirty years.' If at some point you find yourself in Vegas and are willing to venture away from the glitzy confines ofthe Strip, I recommend tbe following itinerary: take a cab downtown to the location of University Medical Center. Proceed north on Shadow Lane, then tum right onto Pinto Lane. From there tum into the third driveway. There" @default.
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• W40071580 title "Is Las Vegas a Real City?" @default.
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