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From: Cy Yoakam <cyyoakam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 18:14:31 -0400
Hello, Designers,
Thought our current Feature on urban design - and newsletter UQI - might be
of interest to you.
(Current Issue: #5): In the Feature, Eliot Allen describes his work in
"Measuring the New Urbanism", looking at 30 variables in the design of
additions to a city in British Columbia. Major categories include Urban
Form (eg., land use diversity), Housing, Employment/Job Balance, Travel,
Energy, Water, Solid Waste, and Pollution. New Urbanism is a return to
pre-World War II neighborhood design, more friendly to the pedestrian (&
less so to the car.). **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?
Find out in the quarterly newsletter - UQI - 5th issue out now. 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 "people zones" of a major city - where the rich, the ethnic groups, and
the homeless live; where the youth gangs, drug dealers, and the prostitutes
roam, and more. Lower Manhattan (NY) in Issue 5 (see below for other
cities).
**(To Order)**:
Prices: $21.75 - US dollars - for subscription (reg., $29 - with your
*first issue being free*);
current issue (#5) 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx), 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx