1. Las Vegas Maturing: Witnessing a Tourist City Grow Up.
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Rowley, Rex J.
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LAS Vegas Strip shooting, Las Vegas, Nev., 2017 , *CITY dwellers , *MASS shootings , *IDENTITY (Psychology) , *PRIMARIES , *TOURISTS , *SOCIAL psychology , *PLACE attachment (Psychology) - Abstract
Keywords: Las Vegas; sense of place; tourism; urban change; personality of place EN Las Vegas sense of place tourism urban change personality of place 206 212 7 01/17/22 20220101 NES 220101 Gragg, Larry (2013). The everyday life of locals maintains a strong, longstanding, and often oppositional bond to what Goodwin refers to as the Las Vegas "master narrative", what Foster sees as the "Vegas" reputation, and what Borer calls the "Las Vegas Syndrome" or "steep neon slope." The Las Vegas craft beer scene, for example, includes local breweries that embrace gambling imagery (Bad Beat Brewing and Aces and Ales) and others that take on local toponyms and historical moments connected to Las Vegas (Tenaya Creek Brewing and Atomic Liquors). [Extracted from the article]
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- 2022
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