Taming Vice: How Machines and Architecture Changed the Culture of Gambling

Authors

Kah-Wee Lee, National University of SingaporeFollow

Document Type

Podcast

Publication Date

9-15-2011

Publisher

UNLV Center for Gaming Research

Abstract

Lee is a doctoral candidate in the department of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation looks at the taming of vice in the context of postcolonial urbanism. Taking as his sites the recent casino developments in Singapore and Macau, he looks at how architectural design, urban planning and other environmental technologies help to draw the line between what is tolerated and what is not. His work at the Lied Library focuses on the historical evolution of gaming machines as part of this larger trajectory.

Keywords

Architecture – Human factors; Architectural design; Casinos – Design and construction; China – Macau; Resort architecture; Singapore; Vice control

Disciplines

Architecture | Gaming and Casino Operations Management | Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance

File Format

mp3

File Size

22.842 KB

Run Time

00:48:48

Language

English

Comments

mp3 Audio file size: 22.3 megabytes

Attached file: Flyer

Repository Citation

Lee, K. (2011). Taming Vice: How Machines and Architecture Changed the Culture of Gambling.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/gaming_podcasts/15