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Elderly mobility patterns often constitute a greater challenge in rural areas, where the location of infrastructure and services can prove less flexible and decision makingcan be more difficult. In this paper, mobility decisions of elderly movers are assessed, and compared with a control group of 'stayers'. These groups appear to act to some extent as different populations. Nonmovers are apprehensive about the future, while many movers see positive outcomes resulting from their relocation. Service and support policies are discussed. If rural-dwelling seniors are not to be 'forced' or 'imposed upon' to move, then policies must be enacted that build more creative support systems. Les types de migration des personnes agCes prCsentent souvent un plus grand d6fi dans les milieux ruraux, 00 /'emplacement de /'infrastructure et des services peut &re moins flexible et oli la prise de dCcisions peut &re plus difficile, Dans cette Ctude on e'value les decisions des vieux de se deplacer en comparaison avec un groupe de contr6le qui est rest6 sur place. 11 semble que ces deux groupes agissent dans une certaine mesure comme deux populations diff6rentes. Ceux qui restent s'inquietent de I'avenir, tandis que plusieurs de ceux qui se dCplacent pre'voient des resultats positifs de leurs migrations. On discute les politiques de service et de soutien. Pour Cviter les migrations 'forc&s' ou 'obligatoires' des personnes ag&s dans les milieux ruraux, il faut promulguer des politiques 9ui produiront des syst$mes de soutien plus crCa teurs.

Selected forms of behavior of husbands and wives in West Los Angeles demonstrate significant distance and directional biases for both groups. Individuals recognize spatial and physical constraints, and can map them quite accurately using cognitive mapping procedures.

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Tourism is a major economic activity with significant social, political and environmental repercussions that affect people and places in virtually every corner of the contemporary world. This study focuses on tourism development in Puerto Vallarta (PV), Jalisco, Mexico. The region has been almost completely transformed by this industry in a relatively short period of time since the development of the first major hotel in 1948. The article begins by discussing the development of PV as a place, as a coastal tourist resort and also as a set of quite different cultural landscapes. Building on this we specifically identify, describe and discuss some of the major cultural imprints of tourism upon PV, including hotels, restaurants, the gay community, art galleries and Internet cafes as well as ecological imprints of