Localizing of Urban Community Resilience Indicator in Putrajaya, Malaysia

Abstract

A low level of social participation among neighborhoods when organizing activities indicates weakness in urban communities. Based on the research conducted by Rahman, Ahmad, Malek, and Awang (2016) the findings from the descriptive analysis show that the level of social participation of urban residents in the neighborhood of Putrajaya is at a low level. The emphasis of resilience concept helps in building a resilient community with a high-quality, proactive and dynamics which capable of addressing the challenges which significantly affect the social lives of the urban community. This paper aims to localize the urban community resilience indicators for measuring the resilience level of the urban community in Putrajaya. The researcher has adopted method performed by Zautra, Hall, and Murray (2009). They believed in order to get an accurate picture of the resilience of the community requires a mixed strategy by improving existed indicators for forward-thinking, measurement and analysis of community resilience.

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