Living Heritage or intangible cultural heritage is defined as human skills and knowledge, practices, expression, and instruments that form the transmitted practices of local people. Threatened by globalization and cultural modernization, many emotions and manifestations of Intangible cultural heritage are in crisis because of the lack of responsibility, recognition, awareness, and education in the community. Using the community-based education principal model, the information-based community will be identified in this study to assess Community strength and needs before planning the action for quality and effective community-based education for living heritage conservation.

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The Malays who migrated to live in urban areas in Malaysiaare well known as a group of community that has strong bonding with their rural villages; the place where majority of them were originated from. Village or known as Desa in the Malay language is always the best place for holiday escapism, festivals and ceremonial events. This paper intends to investigate the characteristics of the Malay village adopting the Information Processing Theory, in order to understand reasons why they are so captivating and longing for by those who lived away from them. A qualitative approach is adopted in this research. A case study was carried out in Perak, the state that is located in the North part of Malaysia. Findings of this study inform that the village natural characteristics, cultural significance and their close- knit communities are among the magnets, pulling the urban people to pay visits and spending their precious times in this natural environment.

The upsetting number of crime occurring in the cities evokes the fear of crime among the civilians. In order to provide a good quality of living environment, a safe city planning must be implemented. To achieve this, several safe city concepts are reviewed. This paper aim to study several safe city concepts done by other researchers. In order to search for the best safe city concepts, a qualitative method research which involves content analysis is the most suitable approach to be employed in this study. This research will develop a new safe city conceptual framework based on the synergy of the previous studies. It is noted that the main concept of safe city planning are the activities and proposition of land use planning, identification of hot spot crime areas, improvement of physical environment and public transport system and appropriate surveillance.

Living Heritage or intangible cultural heritage (ICH) defined as human skills and knowledge, practices, expression, and instruments that form the transmitted practices of local people. By a lack of responsibility, recognition, and education, many emotions and manifestations of ICH are under crisis, threatened by globalization and cultural modernization. This paper provided the literature review as an analysis method and identified the significance of Living Heritage Conservation Education for the Community. In conclusion, the key a quality education, which in the Community-based Education for Living Heritage Conservation, not only fulfills people's needs but also helps link and empower both local people and the community to conserve the living heritage successfully.Keywords: Community-based Education; Intangible cultural heritage; Public awareness; Quality educationeISSN: 2398-4287 © 2020. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v5i13.2090