**Inside "Urban Quality Indicators" newsletter:  Spring ‘99 lineup**
The current issue of UQI (#13 - Spring 1999)
       includes the following (and more):

*Healthy Cities Approach (4 sections):
      Bridging the gap with urban indicators approaches
      Healthy community indicators
      Case Study:  Glasgow, Scotland
      Health-related quality-of-life survey (CDC)
*Evaluative image of the city:  Tokyo & Vancouver (maps)
*Neighborhood "friendly spaces" scoring
*Best towns for mountain living
*Worst cities for the homeless
*Cities with most & least deaths by Aggressive Driving
*AIDS rates by city:  1989 & 1997

[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
(CRITIQUE, SURVEY, LIBRARY, DATA, CITY CULTURE MAP)
in the back issues (#1-12), please see partial listing below.

Best wishes,
Cy Yoakam, editor

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Index of Issues (by Departments)

Urban Quality Indicators:  April 1996 to Jan. 1999

Features by Issue:
1-Pioneer Jacksonville, FL:  Targets for the Year 2000
2-Sustainable Seattle:  Creating a city of lasting 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
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- Environmental Footprint:  Your community’s environmental sustainability
11-  Community Sustainable Welfare Index:  Your community’s economic
sustainability
12-  Measuring Your Community’s Cultural Quality, and ….  What Makes a City
Romantic?

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,
11-Brooklyn, NY, 12-Houston

Urban Quality Communications
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Critique:  Issues 2-8, 10-12 by Maureen Hart;  Issue 9 by
Kate Besleme.

Survey, Data, & Library (issue sampling):
1- Oregon Benchmarks, Healthy Communities 2000, more.
2- *SOLD OUT*
3- Cities with a heart, Feldt’s Index of Societal Well-being,   more.
4- best cities for women, RP’s survey of  community indicators projects, more.
5- best hiking cities, measuring pedestrian friendliness, more
6- best cities in the world (Corp. Resources Group), 50 most enlightened
cities, more
7- best cities for children, Jacksonville’s Equity Index, more.
8- hippest city neighborhoods, linking indicators (Critique), more.
9- 22 pioneer cities in sustainability, 1st International Conference on City
Quality, more.
10-most walkable cities & towns, George magazine’s most corrupt cities, more.
11-best cities for new businesses, urban income inequality & mortality, more.
12-  the 13 cities most threatened by sprawl (Sierra Club); downtown
residential populations (Brookings Inst.), more.


Cy Yoakam



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