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Indicators That Make a Difference -in "Urban Quality Indicators" (UQI) newsltr.

  • 1.  Indicators That Make a Difference -in "Urban Quality Indicators" (UQI) newsltr.

    Posted 11-08-1999 17:20
    The current issue of UQI (#15 - Fall 1999)
    includes the following (and more):

    *Developing Indicators That Make a Difference* (3 parts):
    Santa Monica experience
    Albuquerque experience
    (Easterling) Framework for Evaluating Indicator Performance
    *Atlantic City - City Culture Map
    *Best indicators of neighborhood change
    *World?s 10 Great Towns (Outside)
    *Cities with the most "Urban Cool" (POV)
    *Best cities for kids, teens, and young professionals

    [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 back issues (#1-14), 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 July 1999

    Features by Issue:
    1-Pioneer Jacksonville, FL: Targets for the Year 2000
    2-*SOLD OUT*- 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"
    trends
    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?
    13- Healthy Cities Approach: Acknowledging the contribution of nonmedical
    factors to health
    14- Measuring Urban Walkability

    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, 13-(evaluative image)Tokyo & Vancouver,
    14-Boston

    Survey, Data, & Library (issue sampling - last 2 issues):
    13-best cities for mountain living, and for business; scoring "Residential
    Friendly Spaces", more.
    14-Core indicators of neighborhood sustainability; Dan Burden?s most walkable
    towns, 1999, more


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