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"Iowa-and the larger Tallgrass Prairie region of which it is a part-are at a crossroads. Both must find more sustainable ways to develop or their environmental, economic, and social climates will continue to degrade. Iowa's economy is based heavily on agriculture, mainly corn, soybeans, hogs, cattle, and eggs. Agriculture comprises 25 percent of the state's economy, a percentage that is exceeded in the region only by South Dakota's 31 percent. Unfortunately, this economic model has a huge negative impact on the quality of Iowa's rivers and streams as well as the Mississippi and Missouri River basin and the Gulf of Mexico. Meanwhile, the state's population is increasingly diverse, including many new African-American and Hispanic residents, some of the latter undocumented. These populations are moving to Iowa to seek the economic opportunities offered by its relatively strong economy and respected education system. Yet African-Americans in Iowa face the highest black to white incarceration rate (13.16 to 1) in the United States. Although Hispanics are jailed at lower rates than African-Americans, they are still arrested at more than twice the rate of whites. Moreover, many Hispanics are drawn to Iowa by low-paying, dangerous jobs in meatpacking, and the possibility of deportation hangs over those without legal residency status. For development to be sustainable, society must balance economic development, environmental protection, and social justice. The purpose of this book is to make recommendations for how Iowans can achieve this balance"--

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This article extends research reported by Van Liere and Dunlap (1981) by analyzing the degree to which support for controlling local population growth is affected by how growth controls are defined. Specifically, growth management concern is distinguished by general and specific definitions, with the latter including support for specific growth policies and support for growth controls in the face of explicit costs. The article examines how these definitions of growth management concern relate to each other, to a measure of support for environmental protection, and to various respondent characteristics, including social status and political ideology. Results show that how growth management is measured does make a difference, in some cases, when individual responses are classified by social status or ideology.

Based on 1975 interviews with 1,194 residents of the Detroit (Mich) Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, examined is whether the "affinity hypothesis" of social ties applies to Ur residents' plans to move from their neighborhood. The results show that nearby social ties do not inhibit mobility. Nevertheless, lower-income households are less likely to plan a move when they have friends & relatives living nearby, indicating that affinity does have a partial impact on plans to leave the neighborhood. 2 Tables, 28 References. Modified HA

Based on data derived from the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center 1975 study of the quality of life in Detroit. Importance of neighborhood social ties in affecting mobility for residents of a major metropolitan area as well as for special subgroups within the urban population.

This article elaborates on Wellman and Leighton's discussion of the neighborhood's role as a community and attempts to integrate it with the concept of the "community of limited liability." Although in basic agreement with Wellman and Leighton's conclusions, the article argues that their definition of community focuses too narrowly on interpersonal relations, ignoring other important community functions performed at least partially in the neighborhood. The article describes the degree to which people participate in the community functions of their neighborhood and the extent to which Wellman and Leighton's conclusions are substantiated. The data used indicate a differentiated and specialized pattern of neighborhood participation in which there are at least four independent dimensions. These findings support the "community of limited liability" concept, which says that the neighborhood continues to play a varyingly important role in peoples lives, depending on their degree of "local status" in the community.

Books reviewed in this articles: Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison, The Deindustrialization of America Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, Fiscal 1982 Budget Revisions Ira C. Magaziner and Robert B. Reich, Minding America's Business; The Decline and Rise of the American Economy Robert B. Reich, The Next American Frontier

Introduction / Timothy S. Chapin, Charles E. Connerly, and Harrison T. Higgins -- The foundations of growth management in Florida -- A historical perspective for evaluating Florida's evolving growth management process / Thomas G. Pelham -- Consistency, concurrency and compact development: three faces of growth management implementation in Florida / Efraim Ben-Zadok -- The fiscal theory and reality of growth management in Florida / James C. Nicholas and Timothy S. Chapin -- Attitudes towards growth management in Florida: comparing resident support in 1985 and 2001 / Timothy S. Chapin and Charles E. Connerly -- Evaluating growth management's outcomes -- Growth and change Florida style: 1970 to 2000 / Thomas W. Sanchez and Robert H. Mandle -- Growth management and the spatial outcome of regional development in Florida, 1982-1997 / John I. Carruthers, Marlon G. Boarnet and Ralph B. McLaughlin -- Growth management or growth unabated? : economic development in Florida since 1990 / Timothy S. Chapin -- Compact urban form or business as usual? : an examination of urban form in Orange County, Florida / Gerrit-Jan Knaap and Yan Song -- The spillover effects of growth management: constraints on new housing construction / Yan Song -- Are we any safer? : an evaluation of Florida's hurricane hazard mitigation planning mandates / Robert E. Deyle, Timothy S. Chapin, and Earl J. Baker -- Urban containment and neighborhood quality in Florida / Arthur C. Nelson, Casey J. Dawkins, Thomas W. Sanchez, and Karen A. Danielsen -- Innovations and limitations of the Florida growth management experiment -- Transportation concurrency: an idea before its time? / Ruth L. Steiner -- Why do Florida counties adopt urban growth boundaries? / Randall G. Holcombe -- Paying for the "priceless"? : Florida forever, managing growth, and public land acquisition / Harrison T. Higgins and Neil B. Paradise -- Affordable housing in Florida: why haven't Florida's growth management laws met the challenge of adequately housing all its citizens? / Charles E. Connerly -- Documenting the rise of impact fees in Florida / Gregory S. Burge and Keith R. Ihlanfeldt -- Conclusion -- The 1985 Florida GMA: satan or savior? / Timothy S. Chapin, Charles E. Connerly, Harrison T, Higgins -- Index