Community Indicators Measuring Systems

Rhonda Phillips is Director at the Center for Building Better Communities, Urban and Regional Planning Department, University of Florida, USA.

• Contents: Theory And Basis For Community Indicators: Understanding indicators, Heidi Hoernig and Mark Seasons; Historical background of community indicators, Clifford Cobb and Craig Rixford. Relating Community Indicators To Planning And Development: The sustainable Calgary story: a local response to a global challenge, Noel Keough; Indicators and core area planning: applications in Canada's mid-sized cities, Mark Seasons; Integrating community indicators with economic development planning, Rhonda Phillips and Susan Bridges. Technological Dimensions: Community statistical systems: discussion of development and data issues, Naomi Oliver, Christiana Schumann and Marc T. Smith; Role of multi-scalar GIS-based indicators studies in formulating neighbourhood planning policy, Rina Ghose and William Huxhold; Where do we want to be? Making sustainability indicators integrated, dynamic and participatory, Jeff Carmichael, Sonia Talwar, James Tansey and John Robinson; Subject index.

'...makes a significant contribution to our continuing understanding and appreciation of the value of indicators...A clear strength of the book is the impressive range of issues covered...Community leaders, researchers and graduate students in urban studies, environmental management, land use planning and geography will be sure to find something of deep interest among the chapters.' Urban Studies