People's intense experiences with the land have enhanced the cultural value of rural areas.
Most rural landscapes are “constructed”—that is, they show a many-layered history of …

Recent American data reveal moderate to sub stantial farm-nonfarm differences on a few
kinds of attitudes and behavior, but since farm people now are only about 4 percent of the …

The overall theme of this collection of studies is the recent revival of rural society in the USA
and its social consequences. Since 1970 the non-metropolitan population has been growing …

This article evaluates the likelihood that wealthy suburban residents in the US would
endorse the ideas currently being promulgated by advocates of traditional urbanism. The …

Evaluations of Local Attributes and Community Satisfaction in Small Towns' Willis J. Goudy
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Iowa State University, Ames ABSTRACT …

The service sector has replaced manufacturing as the primary employer in the United States.
Fastest growing within this sector are producer services, ie, those businesses that provide …

The paper makes a close examination of the rural situation in the United Kingdom,
especially the'outer rural'areas beyond the main commuter hinterlands-not only for their own …

A long line of sociological research has found that rural residents tend to be more
conservative than urban residents in the US on a wide range of attitudes and behaviors. Two …

The development of municipal parks and recreation was founded in part on the belief that
recreation and parks is an effective vehicle to facilitate the transition from rural to urban life …

This paper explores the ways that residents of the Seattle metropolitan region define"
neighborhood" in the abstract and their own neighborhoods in particular. On the whole, the …