Healthy, inclusive and diverse city
Build on Cork City’s status as a WHO designated Healthy City, offering an inclusive and vibrant environment for all whilst promoting healthy living and wellbeing. Healthy, inclusive and diverse city
Increasingly, a city’s resilience is also a factor of safety, security, and crime for all their citizens. Security by Design (SbD) has the potential to keep cities safe and secure. The SbD approach builds on knowledge from physical protection; site and target hardening, access control, and surveillance/censoring techniques like CCTV. Moreover, SbD is based on principles and concepts like urban resilience, quality of life in cities, inclusiveness, security-co-production, the use of new digital technologies, and behavioural sciences, among others. These are all approaches to reduce and prevent crime, nuisances, and other safety and security issues. Cork can embed SbD as a core concept for the city centre, tailoring EU urban agenda rules of thumb for effective implementation to the local context.
A city’s resilience is also a factor of its sustainability. As the number of generations within society widens, cities should focus on catering to all generations. A number of key challenges and solutions of planning and designing of intergenerational space can be identified: 1. Different age-groups have different time-schedules, meaning activity is spread across the day. Solutions to this challenge include sharing common areas with facilities catering to different generations, and leveraging overlaps in time schedules to create opportunities for interaction 2. Age segregation tends to exists across many levels of government and other public sector entities. These may focus on children and education, or work and health. This can create organisational boundaries, which inhibit age-integration; consider cross- departmental groups and projects that work across disparate teams 3. Defining the degree of age-integration that planners wish to facilitate is important. Planners should consider designing a healthy balance of both spaces that encourage interaction and spaces that allow more privacy for various age-groups 4. Choice is a key principle to consider when designing intergenerational spaces — consider what can be added to existing spaces, and conduct activities that are meaningful to people. Progressive local authorities plan and operationalise intergenerational spaces on a range of scales: large areas that are co-housed in public spaces, such as a shopping centres or public parks, and more intimate settings, such as a local community centres
Comparative learnings: Small plazas in Spain (Seville, Malaga, Barcelona), L'Oasis d'Aboukir (Paris), Edinburgh Multicultural Festival Stakeholders: Cork Healthy Cities, Environmental Research Institute, EPA, Friends of the Earth, National Parks and Wildlife Service, SEAI, Office of Public Works
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