In Urban Quality Indicators (UQI)  - out Jan. 30th  - we look at how urban
quality of life and sustainability is being measured in Canada.   Several
comparisons are made between Canadian and U.S. urban quality, including:

  *Quality of Life Indicators:  As Canadian as...,  by Dennis Raphael
  *Tale of Two Cities (Vancouver vs. Seattle), by Gordon Price
  *Studying Cities:  Canada's Approach (excerpts),  by Neal Pearce
  *Canadian vs. U.S. Cities:  selected indicators  (in Data section)

Dennis, on the faculty at the U. of Toronto, is involved in several Canadian
indicators projects.  Gordon, a Councillor for the City of Vancouver,
contrasts the skylines, traffic, densities, downtowns and more of the two
western cities.  Neal's comments are excerpted from the Philadelphia
Inquirer.

In addition, each of *4 other departments* in UQI -  Survey,  Library,  Data,
Critique  - have news on urban indicators in Canada (+ many U.S. indicators's
happenings).

Plus, the *City Culture Map* features the City with the Big Shoulders -
Chicago (Part 1).

People zones mapped include:  ethnic, rich and deep poverty neighborhoods,and
places of high violent crime, on-street prostitution, and adult
entertainment.

Chicago (Part 2) in April will cover other people zones of this huge and
diverse city.

Recent features in UQI include:
Issue
7       Neighborhood Indicators
6       Post-Materialistic Indicators
5       Measuring the New Urbanism
4       Attitude Surveys as Urban Indicators

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  From new transmitters came the old stupidities.
  Wisdom was passed on from mouth to mouth.
            -Bertolt Brecht
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Dennis Raphael, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Acting Director,
Masters of Health Science Program in Health Promotion
Department of Public Health Sciences
Graduate Department of Community Health
University of Toronto
McMurrich Building, Room 101
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M5S 1A8