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
Urban Quality Communications
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