The current issue of UQI (#11 - Fall 1998)
       includes the following (and more):

*Measuring your city’s economic sustainability
*Best cities to start up a new firm
*Neighborhood indicators update
*City income inequality & mortality - &…
     -Cities with high and low income gaps (b/w rich & poor)
*Websites and publications on economic indicators
*The Community Sustainable Welfare Index (Critique of)
*Brooklyn City Culture Map (high crime areas, street gangs,
                                                 ethnic neighborhoods, more)

[Note:  The "Urban Quality Indicators" 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 (#1-10), please see listing below.

Best wishes,
Cy Yoakam, editor

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Index of Issues (by Departments)

Urban Quality Indicators:  April 1996 to July 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"
10-The Environmental Footprint:  Your community’s environmental
sustainability

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, 8-10 Chicago-Parts 1-3.

Critique:  Issues 2-8, 10 by Maureen Hart, community indicators consultant;
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.
10-most walkable cities & towns, George magazine’s most corrupt cities, best
beaches in the U.S., more.

Cy Yoakam
Urban Quality Communications
1756 Plymouth Rd., # 239
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
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