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Living it up, living it down: Civic reputation, tourism and urban development in Reno, Nevada.

机译：活下去，活下去：内华达州里诺的市民声誉，旅游业和城市发展。

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This dissertation examines the reciprocal relationship between the civic reputation and the cultural landscape of Reno, Nevada from its founding in 1868 to the present. Drawing on a diverse array of materials including travel guides, postcards, pamphlets, city directories, oral histories, magazine and newspaper articles, film, and fiction, I examine the formation of Reno's national reputation as a divorce capital and gambling mecca and the symbolic economy of its city center. Founded as a junction with no inherent industrial base, Reno found a specialized niche in the service economy of catering to the human desire for liberation, of one kind or another. While many scholars have characterized tourism in the American West as destructive of local place, I demonstrate the role locals played in choosing to orient Reno's downtown landscape to a distinctive form of tourism. And yet always accompanying the desire of various local business interests to capitalize on market demands for legal freedoms, vice, and titillation was the corresponding desire of other residents to overcome that reputation through assertions of the city's respectability, livability, and normality. Each side aspired to create a landscape that reflected their wants and needs. At first intertwined, tourist and residential spaces gradually separated, and only now are beginning to again coincide as the city attempts to recover from a long period of economic decline. The relationship between Reno's civic reputation and its cultural landscape has been clearly reciprocal, with the national reputation influencing the symbolic economy of the landscape, and that landscape in turn inspiring fluctuations in the city's outward reputation, for better and for worse. In examining Reno's entire historical development, I am able to trace the continuities and controversies regarding the city's architectural heritage, place promotion, tourist industry, and residential sense of place. In doing so, I connect nineteenth-century boosterism to late twentieth-century place marketing, considering the shifts in Reno's reputation with respect to changing American cultural values, biases, and stereotypes about divorce, gambling, and the American West itself.
机译：本文考察了内华达州里诺市从1868年成立至今的公民声誉与文化景观之间的相互关系。我利用各种各样的资料，包括旅行指南，明信片，小册子，城市名录，口述历史，杂志和报纸文章，电影和小说，我考察了里诺作为离婚首都，赌博圣地和象征性经济的民族声誉的形成。市中心。里诺建立时没有工业基础，但在服务经济中找到了专门的利基市场，可以满足人类对某种解放的渴望。尽管许多学者将美国西部的旅游业描述为对当地的破坏，但我展示了当地人在选择将里诺市区景观定位为独特的旅游业方面所发挥的作用。然而，总是伴随着各种当地商业利益的需求，以利用市场对合法自由，恶习和提法的需求，这是其他居民通过主张城市的尊敬，宜居性和正常性来克服这种声誉的相应愿望。双方都渴望创建一个反映他们的需求的景观。最初，游客和居住空间相互交织，随着城市试图从长期的经济衰退中恢复过来，游客和居住空间逐渐重合。里诺的公民声誉与其文化景观之间的关系显然是相互对立的，全国声誉影响着景观的象征性经济，而这种景观反过来又激发了城市对外声誉的好坏。在考察里诺的整个历史发展过程中，我可以追溯到有关该城市的建筑遗产，场所提升，旅游业和住宅场所感的连续性和争议。为此，我考虑了里诺在改变美国文化价值观，对离婚，赌博和美国西部本身的偏见和成见方面的声誉转变，从而将19世纪的提倡主义与20世纪后期的地方营销联系起来。

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    Barber, Alicia Marie.;

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    The University of Texas at Austin.;

  • 授予单位 The University of Texas at Austin.;
  • 学科 American Studies.; Geography.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2003
  • 页码 507 p.
  • 总页数 507
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 自然地理学;
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