Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 21:47:29 -0400

From: Cy Yoakam <cyyoakam@CYBERZONE-INC.COM>

Subject: Urban Quality 2001 - Current Issue of UQI newsletter

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Hello, Community Organizers,

Cake & Fudge Factors? Enlightened cities? Has Urban Quality Indicators (UQI) newsletter gone crazy? Not really. In the current (Summer 1997) issue, we asked the question:

"Once basic urban quality & sustainability are on target, where do we go from there in measuring urban quality?"

In the City Culture Map, the people zones in a city where it is always summer - Miami, Florida. And in the Survey section, "the best cities in the world" - and the worst. **Ordering and back issue info below.

**More on "Urban Quality Indicators" (UQI) newsletter**:

How do you measure your community's health and quality? Its sustainability? As with the earlier issues, UQI brings important news about the field of measuring and evaluating the *quality and sustainability* of a community - be it your neighborhood or the entire city.

In each issue, you get a Feature article plus five departments: Survey (of North American activity), Critique, Library, Data, and City Culture Map. The "centerfold" of each 12 page issue is the *City Culture Map* , showing the many people of a city - the rich, the ethnic groups, the homeless, the youth gangs, drug dealers, prostitutes, deep poverty, youth hangouts, and more.

**(To Order)**:

Prices: $21.75 - US dollars - for subscription (reg., $29 - with your *first issue being free*); current issue (#6) or back issues, $7 each. (Note: Add $2 per issue, or $7 for a subscription for locations outside the US & Canada). Please make checks or money orders out to "UQC". We can bill you with your first issue if you like. Order by email (cyyoakam@cyberzone-inc.com), phone/ fax (313-996-8610), or snail mail (see below).

Cy Yoakam, editor/publisher

PS - Sorry for any cross posting of this message that you receive.

Urban Quality Indicators: April 1996 to present*

Features by issue:

1-Pioneer Jacksonville, FL: Performance targets for the Year 2000

2-Sustainable Seattle: Creating a city of last value

3-FunkyTowns, USA: The 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 (May 1997)

6-Post Materialistic Indicators of urban quality, and America's "last migration" (Aug. 1997)

City Culture Maps by issue:

1-Detroit; 2-Baltimore, 3-New Orleans, 4-San Francisco, 5-Lower Manhattan, NY, 6-Miami (Aug.1997).

Critique: Issues 2-6 by Maureen Hart, consultant with communities developing indicators of sustainability

Survey, Data, & Library (issue sampling):

1-Oregon Benchmarks, Healthy Communities 2000, 3 perspectives on urban security, more.

2-Green Mapping, National 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)

Cy Yoakam

Urban Quality Communications

1756 Plymouth Rd., Suite 239

Ann Arbor, MI 48105

Ph/fax: 313-996-8610

email: cyyoakam@cyberzone-inc.com