building rules: how local controls shape community environments and economies

Urban and suburban growth is a burning local issue for communities across the United States and many other parts of the world. Concerns include protecting habitats, high costs of infrastructure, social inequalities, traffic congestion and more intangible worries about ?quality of life.? Citizens pressure public officials to intensify development re

Kee Warner is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Harvey Molotch teaches in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.