Perception Matters: People Make Prosperous Cities

“Perception Matters: People Make Prosperous Cities” will introduce the FIABCI City Prosperity Initiative – Perceptions Index (CPI-PI), an online tool to capture people’s perceptions on the progress of their city in becoming more inclusive, secure, resilient and sustainable. The CPI-PI uses six dimensions of prosperity and sustainability: productivity, infrastructure development, quality of life, equity and social inclusion, environmental sustainability and urban governance. It offers recent and reliable opinions from the public and experts on their vision, thoughts and feelings on the sustainability, well-being, integrated development and prosperity of their city.

The program will include a panel on how the Index was developed and modified to add a qualitative measure to the UN Habitat’s quantitative measure and results from pilot applications in Taichung City, Taiwan and Cyberjaya, Malaysia. The program will also present The City We Need is Affordable Vol II, a book outlining successful large-scale affordable housing development projects from every region in the world and a panel on future developments affecting the real estate industry including the potential use of block-chain technology. The event will take place on February 10 from 4 to 7 pm in the Pearl Room of the Mandarin Orient Hotel Kuala Lumpur. Contributors will include:

•tFIABCI World President Farook Mahmood, Silverline Realty, India
•tTengku Ab. Aziz Tengku Mahmud, FIABCI-Malaysia President
•tEduardo Lopez Moreno, Director of Research and Capacity Development at UN-Habitat
•tLily Chang, CEO, Treasure Dragon Corp., Taichung, Taiwan
•tMahmoud Al Burai, CEO of the Dubai Real Estate Institute

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FIABCI, the International Real Estate Federation – provides access and opportunity for real estate professionals interested in gaining knowledge, sharing information and conducting international business. With members in 65 countries, including 100 Professional Associations, 68 Academic Institutions and individual members from all professions of the 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.