ABSTRACT
The sites in question are in a regional setting with both robust growth and widespread resistance to growth—apparently a twin dynamic. In selecting their study sites, the authors worked their way south from their University of California, Santa Barbara base, gathering up localities until their analytic needs were met. In terms of standard socio-demographic "predictors" of environmentalist sentiment, authors' sites appear to be a rough cross-section of California cities and towns. To the west, Goleta is an unincorporated area of the county adjacent to the University of California, Santa Barbara's student dormitories and apartment blocks, otherwise built of tract homes and an array of research and development and light industrial activities. The city of Santa Barbara has long been the center of planning and land-use politics—not only for the region but in some respects for the state and the nation.
