The current issue of UQI (#10 - Summer 1998) 
       includes the following (and more):

*The Environmental Footprint:  measuring city sustainability
*Most walkable cities and towns
*Best beaches in the U.S.
*Tool kit for Healthy Communities
*Penn State’s quality of life indicators 
*Indicators at the source of the problem (Critique)
*George Magazine’s most corrupt cities
*Chicago City Culture Map-Part 3 (hip neighborhoods, youth hangouts, gay 
 residential, historic preservationists, beachgoers)

[Note:  The UQI newsletter was developed 
to share information on various efforts in North America
measuring the quality, health and sustainability of 
its communities - from neighborhoods to regions.]

For contents of the features and five departments in the 
back issues (#1-9), please see listing below.

Best wishes,
Cy Yoakam, editor

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Index of Issues (by Departments)

Urban Quality Indicators:  April 1996 to April 1998

Features by Issue:
1-Pioneer Jacksonville, FL:  Performance targets for the Year 2000 
2-*SOLD OUT* - Sustainable Seattle:  Creating a city of last value 
3-FunkyTowns, USA:  Best alternative, eclectic, irreverent, and visionary
places.  
4-Attitude Surveys:  How do we know when Good is "good"?
5-Measuring the New Urbanism: Land use indicators as clues to urban quality 
6-Post Materialistic Indicators of urban quality, and America’s "last
migration" 
7-Neighborhood Quality Indicators:  Projects organized around action 
8-Canadian Urban Quality Indicators:  As Canadian as……….. 
9-Retail Quality Indicators: the suburban shift, reinvestment, & "de facto"

City Culture Map by Issue:  
1-Detroit;  2-*SOLD OUT*-Baltimore,  3-New Orleans, 4-San Francisco, 
5-Lower Manhattan, NY, 6-Miami, 7-Seattle, 8-Chicago-Part 1, 9-Chicago-Part 2
(street gangs, drug dealers, public housing, the homeless)

Critique:  Issues 2-8 by Maureen Hart, consultant with communities 
developing indicators of sustainability;  Issue 9 by Kate Besleme of
Redefining Progress.

Survey, Data, & Library (issue sampling):
1- Oregon Benchmarks, Healthy Communities 2000, 3 perspectives on urban
security, more.
2- *SOLD OUT*- Green Mapping, Nat. Neighborhood Indicators Project,
Minneapolis Report Card, more.
3- hate crimes data, Cities with a heart, What makes a city cool?,  Feldt’s
Index of Societal Well-being,   more.
4- best cities for women, new Places Rated Almanac, nationwide survey of
community indicators projects, more.
5- best hiking cities, measuring pedestrian friendliness, web sites for urban
quality, more (Spring 1997)
6- best cities in the world (according to the Corporate Resources Group),
Adopt an Indicator program, 50  most enlightened cities in US (Aug. 1997)
7- best cities for children, Jacksonville’s Equity Index, good books on
neighborhood quality, more.
8- hippest city neighborhoods, safety cities for pedestrians, linking
indicators (Critique), more.
9- 22 pioneer cities in sustainability, most environmentally healthy U.S.
cities, First  International Conference on Quality of Life in Cities, more.

Cy Yoakam
Urban Quality Communications
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