ABSTRACT
Most of the people who came to Fairbanks to work on the pipeline were "working class" people--conservative, independent, proud. The number of forcible rapes reported to the Fairbanks Police Department prior to the pipeline in 1973 was 10. Most of the people who came to Fairbanks to work on the pipeline were "working class" people--conservative, independent, proud. Housing structure in Fairbanks changed somewhat through the emergence of informal, commercial, and religious shared-housing arrangements. The campaign to discourage people seeking pipeline jobs from coming to Fairbanks unless they had adequate resources to sustain themselves is one example of acting to affect the shape of change. Air quality provides another example of anticipated impact which was controlled by the community. It was assumed that increased population activities would increase both the intensity and number of days of ice fog in Fairbanks, and that this in turn would restrict landings at the local airport due to poor visibility.
