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which indicated that all categories in this index merit equal weighting [44].
Currently, this index covers Europe, Latin America, Asia, the United States
and Canada, Germany and Africa [45].
Thus, the index offers a tool to enhance the understanding and decision-
making abilities of all those interested in environmental performance,
from individual citizens through to leading urban policymakers. However,
this index is not directly concerned with quality of life or with how people
are satisfied with their lives.
The recent City Prosperity Index (CPI) has attempted to fill this gap in
assessment indices. It was developed and published by UN-HABITAT in its
report on the state of the world's cities in 2012-2013. It comprises of five dif-
ferent dimensions, as illustrated in Figure 1.4 [2]: productivity, infrastructure
development, quality of life, equity and social inclusion, and environmental
sustainability. The CPI addresses issues of quality of life and of sustainability.
However, the indicators that constitute quality of life in the CPI are just
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FIGURE 1.4
The Wheel of Urban Prosperity. (From United Nations Human Settlements Programme
(UN-HABITAT), State of the World's Cities Report 2012/2013: Prosperity of Cities, UN-HABITAT,
Nairobi, Kenya, 2012.)
