Perception matters

Human perception is derived from emotions that are altered by a sense of security and safety, risk, wellbeing, and happiness. A citizen’s lifestyle when trying to engage in night life could be tainted by the constant fear of being robbed due to a previous assault, simultaneously increasing an individual’s expense on security to assure a safe environment. These patterns of behavior translate subjectivity. Likewise, the legitimacy of government actions to everyday citizens can be assessed by direct forms of participation or voter turnout rates as well as by the general amount of trust placed on a country’s institutions. Trust is a relative measure. Decision-makers and service providers are extremely interested in the collection of real time data derived from perceptions of the citizens they strive to serve. Both qualitative and quantitative perception surveys and studies are becoming increasingly important and widely used. Such surveys can take the form of focus groups, interviews or perception surveys, experimental analysis, public opinion techniques, which capture what respondents believe, think and feel and are thus are able to provide information about their beliefs, values, behaviors, attitudes, opinions, expectations and experiences, knowledge and awareness of particular issues.

Sustainable development and prosperity are both tangible and intangible concepts, which vary by time, context and location. Measuring the UN Sustainable Development Goals and targets, the UN-Habitat City Prosperity Initiative uses its respective CPI indicators, adapted to a perception data framework, to enrich the platform’s current measurements. A perception framework can provide data and information in areas where statistics do not exist or are not appropriate for measuring subjectivity. As the English author, Aldous Huxley wrote: “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”

The City Prosperity Initiative - Perception Index

The CPI-Perception tool offers a complementary and / or alternative method to understand and monitor the sustainability conditions of cities and their communities. It introduces real time analysis of opinion and current understanding of inhabitants and stakeholders of a city’s prosperity, possibilities to implement adequate plans, actions and policies for improvement. Governments will receive a systematic feedback based on how people understand and feel about the different dimensions of prosperity of the city, facilitating a greater collaboration between the government, private sector and civil society.

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat ) provides achievable solutions to current challenges cities face by promoting socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements, and adequate shelter for all. The agency combines technical expertise for operational implementation to make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. Beyond its core areas of city planning, infrastructure development and participatory slum upgrading, UN-Habitat also focuses on gender, youth and capacity building as well as urban legislation and risk management.

UN- Habitat strives to provide support reflecting the New Urban Agenda (NUA) in city and country development plans and policies, making expertise on sustainable urban development available to governments at all stages of implementation, monitoring and reporting. UN-Habitat has gained a unique and a universally acknowledged expertise in all things urban, with a view to ensure that Sustainable Development Goal 11 and the rest of the SDGs are successfully implemented and achieved

The City Prosperity Initiative (CPI) is the United Nation’s platform for urban data, developed to formulate evidence based decision making and monitoring for cities. The basis of the Initiative is an Index created by UN-Habitat in 2012, developed as a response to the demand of local authorities in need of a tool which measures the prosperity and sustainability of cities. The CPI serves as a baseline setting, a decision making tool, a policy dialogue and a monitoring instrument. The Index is current and evolving, and uses different tools to develop products which measure the different aspects of urbanization of a city.

Goal 11 indicators and other SDGs, using several transformational interventions based on the main components of the New Urban Agenda which include Planning and Urban Design, Urban Legislation and Governance, and Urban Economy and Municipal Finance. The platform offers the possibility of adopting a citywide approach to development beyond the sectorial nature of the SDG indicators and, at the same time, it will offer the possibility of individual disaggregation of indicators and computing city and country aggregated values.

FIABCI provides access and opportunity for real estate professionals interested in gaining knowledge, sharing information and conducting international business with each other. FIABCI Members represent all real estate disciplines including Brokerage, Property Management, Valuation/Appraisal, Investment, Development, Consulting, Legal, Architecture, Planning and Insurance.

Members work in all types of property sectors - Commercial, Residential, Luxury, Retail, Rural, Resort, Industrial, etc FIABCI's areas of focus include global networking, international business development, education and advocacy in the global real estate industry. With members in 65 countries, including 100 Professional Associations, 65 Academic Institutions and 3000 individual members from all professions of the real estate sector, FIABCI is the most representative organization of the real estate industry in the world and holds special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations.

Methodology for the City Prosperity Initiative - Perception Index

The City Prosperity Initiative-Perception Index (CPI-PI) is a tool derived and aligned to the City Prosperity Initiative- Index structure (CPI-I), per its latest version (2017), which answers to the urban Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the New Urban Agenda (NUA). This version is also known as “CPI-SDGs”.

Based on the City Prosperity Initiative- Index, the CPI-Perception Index operates complex and multidimensional concepts using the same six dimensions of prosperity and sustainability: governance, planning, economy, infrastructure, social cohesion and ecology in cities. With the intention of complementing the CPI objective measures, the CPI-PI offers a primary source, with recent and reliable information and a vision about the thoughts and feelings of the population, which qualifies the prosperity, the sustainability of the city, beyond the raw data. The CPI-PI is based on the same concept of the CPI, understanding that urban prosperity, well- being, sustainability and integrated development are multidimensional concepts that can only be measured precisely when using a composite index. This index serves as a monitoring and diagnostic tool to identify which urban areas are working well and which others are performing poorly.

The 2017 edition of the CPI-SDGs was updated and revised to fulfill a more cohesive purpose, including fewer indicators that provide a more comprehensive understanding of the city’s dynamics, many of the urban SDGs indicators, especially the eleventh, dedicated to ensure the inclusion, security, resilience and sustainability of cities. The CPI-SDGs also includes key components of the New Urban Agenda that was adopted at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), held in Quito, Ecuador, on October 2016.

City Prosperity Initiative Dimensions of Prosperity

Quality of life

The quality of life dimension measures the cities’ average achievement in ensuring general wellbeing and satisfaction of the citizens.

Equity and social inclusion

The Equity and Social inclusion dimension measures the cities’ average achievements in ensuring equitable (re)distribution of the benefits of prosperity, reduces poverty and the incidence of slums, protects the rights of minority and vulnerable groups, enhances gender equality, and ensures equal participation in the social, economic, political and cultural spheres.

Environmental sustainibility

The Environmental Sustainability dimension measures the average achievement of the cities in ensuring the protection of the urban environment and its natural assets. This should be done simultaneously while ensuring growth, pursuing energy efficiency, reducing pressure on surrounding land and natural resources and reducing environmental losses through creative and environment-enhancing solutions.

Urban governance and legislation

The Urban Governance and Legislation dimension has the purpose of demonstrating the role of good urban governance in catalysing local action towards prosperity, including the capacity to regulate the urbanization process.

Productivity

The productivity dimension measures the average achievements of the cities in terms of creating wealth and how it’s shared, or cities contribution to economic growth and development, generation of income, provision of decent jobs and equal opportunities for all.

Infrastructure development

The Infrastructure dimension measures the average achievement of the city in providing adequate infrastructure for accessing clean water, sanitation, good roads, and information and communication technology - in order to improve living standards and enhance productivity, mobility and connectivity.

Quality of life

Equity and social inclusion

Environmental sustainibility

Urban governance and legislation

Productivity

Infrastructure development

Background information on the Cyberjaya CPI-PI

CPI-PI Report on the assessment

External reports links

DETAILED TEST ANALISYS

Urban governance and legislation

Urban Rules and Legislation

Urban Governance

Urban economy and municipal finance

Local Economic Development

Employment

Municipal Finance

Urban planning and design

Urban Form

Urban Land

Public Space

Infrastructure development

Adequate Housing

Energy and ICT

Urban Mobility

Social cohesion and equity

Social Development

Economic Inclusion

Gender and Youth Inclusion

Safety and Security

Urban ecology and environment

Resilience

Environmental Sustainability

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Perception matters Human perception is derived from emotions that are altered by a sense of security and safety, risk, wellbeing, and happiness. A citizen’s lifestyle when trying to engage in night life could be tainted by the constant fear of being robbed due to a previous assault, simultaneously increasing an individual’s expense on security to assure a safe environment. These patterns of behavior translate subjectivity. Likewise, the legitimacy of government actions to everyday citizens can be assessed by direct forms of participation or voter turnout rates as well as by the general amount of trust placed on a country’s institutions. Trust is a relative measure. Decision-makers and service providers are extremely interested in the collection of real time data derived from perceptions of the citizens they strive to serve. Both qualitative and quantitative perception surveys and studies are becoming increasingly important and widely used. Such surveys can take the form of focus groups, interviews or perception surveys, experimental analysis, public opinion techniques, which capture what respondents believe, think and feel and are thus are able to provide information about their beliefs, values, behaviors, attitudes, opinions, expectations and experiences, knowledge and awareness of particular issues. Sustainable development and prosperity are both tangible and intangible concepts, which vary by time, context and location. Measuring the UN Sustainable Development Goals and targets, the UN-Habitat City Prosperity Initiative uses its respective CPI indicators, adapted to a perception data framework, to enrich the platform’s current measurements. A perception framework can provide data and information in areas where statistics do not exist or are not appropriate for measuring subjectivity. As the English author, Aldous Huxley wrote: “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
The City Prosperity Initiative - Perception Index The CPI-Perception tool offers a complementary and / or alternative method to understand and monitor the sustainability conditions of cities and their communities. It introduces real time analysis of opinion and current understanding of inhabitants and stakeholders of a city’s prosperity, possibilities to implement adequate plans, actions and policies for improvement. Governments will receive a systematic feedback based on how people understand and feel about the different dimensions of prosperity of the city, facilitating a greater collaboration between the government, private sector and civil society.
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat ) provides achievable solutions to current challenges cities face by promoting socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements, and adequate shelter for all. The agency combines technical expertise for operational implementation to make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. Beyond its core areas of city planning, infrastructure development and participatory slum upgrading, UN-Habitat also focuses on gender, youth and capacity building as well as urban legislation and risk management. UN- Habitat strives to provide support reflecting the New Urban Agenda (NUA) in city and country development plans and policies, making expertise on sustainable urban development available to governments at all stages of implementation, monitoring and reporting. UN-Habitat has gained a unique and a universally acknowledged expertise in all things urban, with a view to ensure that Sustainable Development Goal 11 and the rest of the SDGs are successfully implemented and achieved The City Prosperity Initiative (CPI) is the United Nation’s platform for urban data, developed to formulate evidence based decision making and monitoring for cities. The basis of the Initiative is an Index created by UN-Habitat in 2012, developed as a response to the demand of local authorities in need of a tool which measures the prosperity and sustainability of cities. The CPI serves as a baseline setting, a decision making tool, a policy dialogue and a monitoring instrument. The Index is current and evolving, and uses different tools to develop products which measure the different aspects of urbanization of a city. Goal 11 indicators and other SDGs, using several transformational interventions based on the main components of the New Urban Agenda which include Planning and Urban Design, Urban Legislation and Governance, and Urban Economy and Municipal Finance. The platform offers the possibility of adopting a citywide approach to development beyond the sectorial nature of the SDG indicators and, at the same time, it will offer the possibility of individual disaggregation of indicators and computing city and country aggregated values. FIABCI provides access and opportunity for real estate professionals interested in gaining knowledge, sharing information and conducting international business with each other. FIABCI Members represent all real estate disciplines including Brokerage, Property Management, Valuation/Appraisal, Investment, Development, Consulting, Legal, Architecture, Planning and Insurance. Members work in all types of property sectors - Commercial, Residential, Luxury, Retail, Rural, Resort, Industrial, etc FIABCI's areas of focus include global networking, international business development, education and advocacy in the global real estate industry. With members in 65 countries, including 100 Professional Associations, 65 Academic Institutions and 3000 individual members from all professions of the real estate sector, FIABCI is the most representative organization of the real estate industry in the world and holds special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations.
Methodology for the City Prosperity Initiative - Perception Index The City Prosperity Initiative-Perception Index (CPI-PI) is a tool derived and aligned to the City Prosperity Initiative- Index structure (CPI-I), per its latest version (2017), which answers to the urban Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the New Urban Agenda (NUA). This version is also known as “CPI-SDGs”. Based on the City Prosperity Initiative- Index, the CPI-Perception Index operates complex and multidimensional concepts using the same six dimensions of prosperity and sustainability: governance, planning, economy, infrastructure, social cohesion and ecology in cities. With the intention of complementing the CPI objective measures, the CPI-PI offers a primary source, with recent and reliable information and a vision about the thoughts and feelings of the population, which qualifies the prosperity, the sustainability of the city, beyond the raw data. The CPI-PI is based on the same concept of the CPI, understanding that urban prosperity, well- being, sustainability and integrated development are multidimensional concepts that can only be measured precisely when using a composite index. This index serves as a monitoring and diagnostic tool to identify which urban areas are working well and which others are performing poorly. The 2017 edition of the CPI-SDGs was updated and revised to fulfill a more cohesive purpose, including fewer indicators that provide a more comprehensive understanding of the city’s dynamics, many of the urban SDGs indicators, especially the eleventh, dedicated to ensure the inclusion, security, resilience and sustainability of cities. The CPI-SDGs also includes key components of the New Urban Agenda that was adopted at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), held in Quito, Ecuador, on October 2016.
City Prosperity Initiative Dimensions of Prosperity Quality of life The quality of life dimension measures the cities’ average achievement in ensuring general wellbeing and satisfaction of the citizens. Equity and social inclusion The Equity and Social inclusion dimension measures the cities’ average achievements in ensuring equitable (re)distribution of the benefits of prosperity, reduces poverty and the incidence of slums, protects the rights of minority and vulnerable groups, enhances gender equality, and ensures equal participation in the social, economic, political and cultural spheres. Environmental sustainibility The Environmental Sustainability dimension measures the average achievement of the cities in ensuring the protection of the urban environment and its natural assets. This should be done simultaneously while ensuring growth, pursuing energy efficiency, reducing pressure on surrounding land and natural resources and reducing environmental losses through creative and environment-enhancing solutions. Urban governance and legislation The Urban Governance and Legislation dimension has the purpose of demonstrating the role of good urban governance in catalysing local action towards prosperity, including the capacity to regulate the urbanization process. Productivity The productivity dimension measures the average achievements of the cities in terms of creating wealth and how it’s shared, or cities contribution to economic growth and development, generation of income, provision of decent jobs and equal opportunities for all. Infrastructure development The Infrastructure dimension measures the average achievement of the city in providing adequate infrastructure for accessing clean water, sanitation, good roads, and information and communication technology - in order to improve living standards and enhance productivity, mobility and connectivity.