The current issue of UQI (#12 - Winter 1999)

includes the following (and more):

*Measuring your city’s arts & culture *Rethinking cultural indicators *What makes a city romantic? *Measuring a city’s ethnic diversity *Downtown residential populations: 1998 & 2010 (Brookings Inst.) *13 most sprawl threatened cities (Sierra Club) *Houston City Culture Map (edge cities, sprawl, & Elvis shrines) *Hottest cities on the concert circuit - by size

[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 (#1-11), please see listing below.

Best wishes, Cy Yoakam, editor

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Index of Issues (by Departments)

Urban Quality Indicators: April 1996 to Oct. 1998

Features by Issue: 1-Pioneer Jacksonville, FL: targets for the Year 2000 2-*SOLD OUT* - Sustainable Seattle 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

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.

Critique: Issues 2-8, 10-11 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.

Cy Yoakam Urban Quality Communications website: http://members.aol.com/CYoakam578/UQIHomePg.html