This book is second in a series covering best practices in community quality-of-life (QOL) indicators. The first volume in this series is a compilation of cases of best work in community indicators research. This second volume continues to build on the goal of the series and includes eleven cases (chapters). The cases in both volumes describe communities that have launched their own community indicators programs. Elements that are included in the descriptions are the history of the community indicators work within the target region, the planning of community indicators, the actual indicators that were selected, the data collection process, the reporting of the results, and the use of the indicators to guide community development decisions and public policy.

This series will be of great value to community planners, urban planners, city planners, regional planners, quality-of-life researchers and researchers in public administration.

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The Jacksonville, Florida, Experience.- Indicators as a Structural Framework for Social Change.- Indicators in Action: The Use of Sustainability Indicators in the City of Santa Monica.- A Measure and Method to Assess Subjective Community Quality of Life.- Perception and Evaluation of the Quality of Life in Florence, Italy.- City of Winnipeg Quality-of-Life Indicators.- Sustainable Seattle: The Case of the Prototype Sustainability Indicators Project.- Using Community Indicators to Improve the Quality of Life for Children: The Sacramento County Children's Report Card.- Living in a Post-Apartheid City: A Baseline Survey of Quality of Life in Buffalo City.- Making Community Indicators Accessible Through the Census Information Center: Howard University, Portals to the Community, and the New American University.- Quality Indicators for Progress: A Guide to Community Quality-of-Life Assessments.