Centres-Villes : quand la ville ne fonctionne plus ! Ce qu’il se passe à Sydney

75% des habitants de Sydney vivent dans les quartiers à haute densité d’appartements. Seulement 49% d’entre eux disent que leur environnement social les satisfait. Or la cohésion sociale est une dimension critique pour toute ville. Que ce passe-t’il à Sydney qui puisse être repris dans nos centres-villes ?
With increasing levels of density, the city (NDLR: Sydney) says improving social cohesion is crucial to mitigating the challenges of high-density living, including issues relating to noise, parking and pets.
As part of its draft 10-year sustainability action plan – A City For All– going on exhibition, the city is putting forward a “vertical communities” program designed to strengthen the social connections of people living in apartments.
“We plan to work with owners’ corporations, strata committees, developers, universities and apartment residents to strengthen social connectedness using targeted vertical community-building strategies,” the plan says.
“The city will develop pilot programs based on best-practice approaches in other Australian and overseas cities, and test the results with a view to rolling out successful models. We will experiment with ‘community concierges’ and ‘vertical block parties’, and will enable the delivery and activation of indoor and outdoor communal spaces in new developments.”
The report said high-rise residents perceived their building to be “a community”, and that providing more communal spaces could foster social connections by providing more opportunities for casual social interaction, helping to improve wellbeing and reduce social isolation.
“The city will explore avenues to encourage residential developers to provide shared spaces, including through its planning guidelines.”
It will also produce “liveability toolkits” for developers, architects and planners to “promote best-practice planning frameworks for universal design, healthy, safe built environments, and age-friendly and child-friendly cities”.
Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore said there were many issues raised in consultation with the community, including “housing affordability and homelessness, rising inequality, a sense of safety and belonging in our neighbourhoods, access to green space for us and our pets, access to good public transport, and a sustainable natural environment that supports our health and wellbeing”.
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The plan has received the tick of approval from Australia Institute chief economist Richard Denniss.
“Ensuring that jobs, income and housing are distributed fairly across a city is not just good for social cohesion, it’s good for the growth of the city as a whole,” Mr Denniss said.
“While there are no simple solutions for ensuring housing is affordable and the distribution of opportunities equitable, the simple fact is that cities that turn their backs on such problems will not just cause harm to the most vulnerable members of the community, but to the strength, resilience and prosperity of the city as a whole.”
Other actions in the plan include:
  • A Sydney food business incubator– a three-year pilot project involving the City of Sydney, University of Sydney, federal and state governments and social enterprises. A food business incubator would support disadvantaged people to start their own food business, supported by vocational education and training. This model for addressing food insecurity and inequality has been established in many US cities and globally.
  • Supporting socially responsible small businessesto deliver positive social impacts in the local area, strengthen their corporate responsibility and economic inclusion outcomes and improve their socially responsible procurement and work practices.
  • Supporting digital inclusion– the city will use digital technology to improve service delivery and stakeholder engagement.

La cohésion sociale n’est pas seulement un besoin de la ville. C’est aussi et surtout un besoin vital pour tout être humain. C’est pourquoi la notion de communauté est si importante. C’est aussi pourquoi nous (DOCOSEN) avons choisi de définir l’architecture de la Smart City comme un système distribué de Smart Sustainable Districts qui ont chacun leur âme, leur cœur et leurs poumons. L’idée de communauté verticale en est une déclinaison pour les villes à haute densité d’habitat. Les outils sont donc identiques dans leurs concepts et principes. Ce n’est donc pas surprennant que malgrè toute la technologie qui peut être mise en œuvre, les « community concierges » soient un des éléments clés.

Centres-villes et Smart Sustainable District

Parmi tous les « districts » d’une ville, le centre-ville ou cœur de ville a une place spéciale. C’est le quartier « totem » de la ville. Il a le pouvoir de faire disfonctionner la ville tout comme il a le pouvoir de donner une dynamique virtueuse à la ville. Comme le montre l’exemple de Sydney, il faut donc y créer un esprit de communauté ouverte et inclusive avec des outilis modernes de Smart Sustainable District comme IoSHA ainsi que des espaces et des activités de rencontres et d’échanges.

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