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FORUM Magazine Fall 2007

From Dreamscape to Megastate: Modern Florida Evolves

Following the Dream ( Click here for full article)
After a half-century of phenomenal population growth, Floridians assess environmental consequences and social changes—and ponder projections for even more growth.    

Halting Sprawl
By Bruce Stephenson
Can communities be designed to connect people and preserve nature? One answer can be found in the work of a renowned planner from the 1920s. 
 
Newcomers Transform Florida Politics
By David R. Colburn
Massive social changes spark an abrupt switch from one-party Dixiecrat rule to a GOP-dominated battleground.
 
Living on the Hyphen
By Myra Mendible
What is it like for Cuban Americans and other immigrants to live between two cultures, two identities? Not comfortable but home.
 
Florida’s Deep Blue Destiny
By Bill Belleville
A peninsula of fragile, intertwining aquifers, springs, rivers, lakes, and swamps tries to weather a hardware-driven culture.
 
Immersed in a Jewel
By Margaret Ross Tolbert
Enter the brilliant prism of a Florida spring.
 
Underground Story of a Populated Paradise
By Cynthia Barnett
Sinkholes and dried-up lakes are symptoms you see above the ground. Look deeper to find the evidence of Florida’s water crisis.