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Title:  Las Vegas in Singapore : violence, progress and the crisis of nationalist modernity / Author:  Lee, Kah Wee. author. Publisher:  Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019 ; (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015) Singapore : NUS Press, [2019] ; (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015) Isbn:  9789813250840 9789814722902 Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263) and index. Url:  https://uprrp.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://muse.jhu.edu/book/64969/ Contents:  part I. City of violence. -- The forensic and the generalized : criminalizing vice through the "common gaming house" in colonial Singapore -- The paradox of nationalist modernity : expanding criminality, urban evictions and the criminalization of everyday life -- The debris of nation-building : gambling and the street economy -- From lottery to stadium : "moral laundering" as symbolic transformation of money -- part II : City of progress. The quantitative turn and its discontents : casino gambling in corporate America -- "Architectural reasons to gamble" : a spatial economy of numbers and desire -- Las Vegas in Singapore : nationalist modernity and the aesthetic of effacement. Series:  Book collections on Project MUSE. Description:  1 online resource (1 PDF (xvii, 275 pages) :) : illustrations. Notes:  Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. Summary:  Las Vegas in Singapore looks at the collision of the histories of Singapore and Las Vegas in the form of Marina Bay Sands, one of Singapore's two integrated resorts. The first history begins in colonial Singapore in the 1880s, when British administrators revised gambling laws in response to the political threat posed by Chinese-run gambling syndicates. Following the tracks of these punitive laws and practices, the book moves into the 1960s when the newly independent city-state created a national lottery while criminalizing both organized and petty gambling in the name of nation-building. The second history shifts the focus to corporate Las Vegas in the 1950s when digital technology and corporate management practices found each other on the casino floor. Tracing the emergence of the specialist casino designer, the book reveals how casino development evolved into a highly rationalized spatial template designed to maximize profits. Today an iconic landmark of Singapore, Marina Bay Sands is also an artifact of these two histories, an attempt by Singapore to normalize what was once criminalized in its nationalist history. Lee Kah-Wee argues that the historical project of the control of vice is also about the control of space and capital. The result is an uneven landscape where the legal and moral status of gambling is contingent on where it is located. As the current wave of casino expansion spreads across Asia, he warns that these developments should not be seen as liberalization but instead as a continuation of the project of concentrating power by modern states and corporations. Add Authors:  Project Muse, distributor. Project Muse. Subject:  Casinos -- Economic aspects -- Singapore. Gambling industry -- Economic aspects -- Singapore. Casinos -- Nevada -- Las Vegas. Casinos -- Singapore. Gambling -- Law and legislation -- Singapore. Gambling -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Singapore. Gambling -- Singapore -- History. Type:  text txt Media Type:  computer c Carrier Type:  online resource cr   Copy/Holding information No Item Information Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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