The current issue of UQI (#8-Winter 1998)
includes the following (and more):

*Seattle vs. Vancouver’s quality
*Canadian urban quality projects
*hippest neighborhoods (Utne Reader)
*linking urban indicators (in Critique)
*safest cities for pedestrians
*Canadian vs. U.S. cities on selected indicators
*Chicago City Culture Map-Part 1 (ethnic neighborhoods, rich
             & poor areas, on-street prostitution, high crime areas)
*and much more

[Note:  UQI (or "Urban Quality Indicators") 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 (#1-7), please see the listing below.

Best wishes,
Cy Yoakam, editor

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Urban Quality Indicators:  April 1996 to present*

Features by Issue:
1-Pioneer Jacksonville, FL:  Performance targets for the Year 2000
2-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……….. (Jan. 1998)*

City Culture Maps by issue:
1-Detroit; 2-Baltimore, 3-New Orleans, 4-San Francisco,
5-Lower Manhattan, NY, 6-Miami, 7-Seattle, 8-Chicago-Part 1 (Jan. 1998)

Critique:  Issues 2-8 by Maureen Hart, consultant with communities
developing indicators of sustainability

Survey, Data, & Library (issue sampling):
1-Oregon Benchmarks, Healthy Communities 2000, 3 perspectives on urban
security, more.
2-Green Mapping, National 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.

Cy Yoakam
Urban Quality Communications
1756 Plymouth Rd., # 239
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
ph/fax:  734-996-8610
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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
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