Excerpt: The New Pacific is published for general circulation by The New Pacific Publishing Association, a nonprofit organization based in Seattle and created to produce a serious quarterly journal of public and cultural affairs for the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia. The journal serves as a vehicle for public discussion of, and public education about, matters of common interest to the citizens of a region whose major urban centers include Portland, Oregon; Seattle-Tacoma, Washington; and Vancouver-Victoria, British Columbia. Articles in this journal: Coming of Age in the New Pacific Era Eileen V. Quigley Hands Across the Border: The Pacific Northwest Economic Partnership Terry Brainerd Chadwick The Rural-Urban Gap: A Policy Problem for the 1990s Introduction Paul Sommers Toward "One Region"; Strengthening Rural-Urban Economic Linkages David S. Harrison and Jonathan Seib A Suburban Project: The Pedestrian Pocket Introduction Douglas S. Kelbaugh New Strategies for Suburban Growth Peter Calthorpe Should the United States Adopt a Canadian-Style Health Care System? A Tale of Two Systems: A Quantitative Comparison of Health Care Delivery in British Columbia and Washington State Aaron Katz and Maureen McCarry But Not for Us? The Wholesale Adoption of a Canadian-Style System in the United States Seems Highly Unlikely Julie Kosterlitz Black Women in Pacific Northwest History Susan H. Armitage and Deborah Gallacci Wilbert Essay Postmark: Coos Bay William G. Robbins Art Brian Basset, Mel Curtis, Fred Hilliard, Peter Staten

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