Two loft-style projects scheduled to open next month are filling rapidly, an indicator, city officials say, that the downtown area is well positioned to benefit from the pent-up demand for affordable housing in Fairfield County.
International practice applies several urban indicators for sustainable cities (Monocle's Quality of Life Survey, Quality of Life Index (QLI), Indicators for Sustainability, European Green City Index, City Blueprint and others).
Then socio-demographical, geographical and health care indicators at city level were considered as potential effect modifiers explaining heterogeneity.
It is thus a pretty good indicator of city amenities.
Furthermore, with the promotion of indicators, sustainable cities could be achievable.
Table 1 List of TPIs to build a scenario Macro-categories Name of indicator Definition City planning Population Number of inhabitants in a given city.
Table 2 Selection of urban water assessment tools Name of indicator Description City Blueprint Aims at overall sustainability of Integrated Water Resources Management IWRMM) in municipalities and regions.
However, the rational range of fractal dimension value and the relationships between various fractal indicators of cities are not yet revealed in theory.
Based on prior biological and epidemiological knowledge, we specified potential confounders and correspondingly, in our main model, we adjusted for age, sex, smoking status, physical activity, BMI, individual socioeconomic status (SES), neighborhood unemployment rate and an indicator for city.
Moreover, we conducted the regression analysis without the indicator for city: while the model with city reflects the effects of differences within city, the model without city refers to the overall contrasts in the whole study area, however potentially confounded by city-specific characteristics.
Specifically, they propose and measure two indicators: degree of city cohesion and degree of city outreach, to quantify the relations within a city and the relations among different cities.
