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fyi, mapsters.
Apologies for the commercial nature of this, but I think the urban quality
maps may be of interest to some of you, and I am not sure if you would ever
 see or hear of them other than from Mr. Yoakum's notice on H-Urban, another
list serve of note.
 
Alice Hudson <a href="/scripts/wa-UGA.exe?LOGON=A3%3D9806%26L%3DMAPS-L%26E%3D7bit7BIT%26P%3D263913%26B%3D--%26T%3Dtext%252FplainTEXT%252FPLAIN%3B%2520charset%3DUS-ASCII%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a>
 
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Subject: TOC: "Urban Quality Indicators" newsletter:  Spring 98 - #9
Author:  Wendy Plotkin <<a href="/scripts/wa-UGA.exe?LOGON=A3%3D9806%26L%3DMAPS-L%26E%3D7bit7BIT%26P%3D263913%26B%3D--%26T%3Dtext%252FplainTEXT%252FPLAIN%3B%2520charset%3DUS-ASCII%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a>> at Internet
Date:    6/24/98 5:05 AM
 
 
Posted by Cy Yoakam <<a href="/scripts/wa-UGA.exe?LOGON=A3%3D9806%26L%3DMAPS-L%26E%3D7bit7BIT%26P%3D263913%26B%3D--%26T%3Dtext%252FplainTEXT%252FPLAIN%3B%2520charset%3DUS-ASCII%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a>>
 
The current issue of UQI (#9-Spring 1998)
       includes the following (and more):
 
*22 Pioneer cities and towns in sustainability
*Retail quality indicators: the suburban shift, reinvestment, & "de facto"
*Downtown Health Index (small cities)
*First International Conference on Quality of Life in Cities
*HUDs Community 2020 software
*Reno & Jacksonville:  project purposes compared (Critique)
*Most environmentally healthy U.S. cities
*Chicago City Culture Map-Part 2 (street gangs, drug dealers,
                                  public housing, the homeless)
 
[Note:  The UQI 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 (#1-8), please see listing below.
 
Best wishes,
Cy Yoakam, editor
 
Index of Issues (by Departments)
 
Urban Quality Indicators:  April 1996 to April 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"
 
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-Chicago-Part 1, 9-Chicago-Part 2
(street gangs, drug dealers, public housing, the homeless)
 
Critique:  Issues 2-8 by Maureen Hart, consultant with communities
developing indicators of sustainability;  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.
 
Cy Yoakam
Urban Quality Communications
1756 Plymouth Rd., # 239
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
ph/fax:  734-996-8610
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