The proliferation of gaming in America has increasingly brought certain development pressures to bear on historic resources and has been an emerging issue in the field of historic preservation for the last decade. Early experiments to harness gaming as a catalyst for preservation activity in four historic mining communities in South Dakota and Colorado received much attention. More recently, riverboat casinos have affected historic communities throughout the Midwest. From the standpoint of preservation, these examples have had both positive and negative effects for historic resources. This study examines some of the lessons learned and uses them to illuminate the case of Rising Sun, a small rural community in southeastern Indiana with a casino riverboat. The goal is to determine whether gaming development, if properly planned, situated, and regulated, can be a positive force for preservation activity while still maintaining the original character of the host community. / Department of Architecture
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:handle/186961 |
| Date | January 2001 |
| Creators | Kennedy, Steven D. |
| Contributors | Glass, James A. |
| Source Sets | Ball State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | ix, 223 leaves : ill. (some col.), charts (chiefly col.), maps (some col.) ; 28 cm. |
| Source | Virtual Press |
| Coverage | n-us-in |
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