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 ph/fax: 734-996-8610 email: CYoakam578@aol.com website: http://members.aol.com/CYoakam578/UQIHomePg.html