#socialcohesion

The West is currently experiencing several simultaneous trends:

A sharp decline in native birth rates across Europe and North America

The medicalization of gender-confused youth, often leading to sterility

The erosion of the nuclear family and traditional social structures

Mass immigration from culturally incompatible societies, particularly those with large Muslim populations

The aggressive labeling and silencing of anyone who points out these trends

These aren’t isolated issues. They all point in the same direction: shrinking, divided, and less culturally confident Western populations.

This isn’t about conspiracy theories. It’s not about left versus right. It’s about observable patterns and their real-world consequences. Whether these trends are deliberate or the result of profound ideological failure doesn’t ultimately matter. What matters is that they are happening, and they need to be honestly discussed and addressed.

Grateful to have been invited as a speaker at the Specialization Seminar in Landscape Design: "Participatory Design and Social Cohesion," organized by the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo.

It was a rich exchange around some of the most pressing questions in contemporary urban practice, how landscape design can serve as a vehicle for community engagement, territorial identity, and social cohesion in our cities.

Thank you to Dr. Erika E. Pérez and Mtro. Luis Jacobo Villafuerte for the coordination and the invitation, and to the fellow speakers for such stimulating conversations. Events like this remind us why cross-institutional dialogue matters.

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I’ve always wanted to explore Sydney as part of a blog called Explore small worlds but as I was writing my last piece in which I discussed social cohesion and it did give me serious (traumatic) flashbacks to belonging for HSC.

The previous piece talks about the reality of macro social cohesion, something that is evident in the micro scale. After a spike of social cohesion over the period of the pandemic, rates of social cohesion has dropped below 2019 levels. I think that it doesn’t consider the micro experiences that make up the wider macro trend. Although that piece identified that economics.

Sydney has always existed on some version of segregation, being a colonial outpost first and then nexus of that colonial empire and finally resting in it’s current state as the global city rife with the stashing of expensive properties of foreign nationals. A friend quipped that Sydney isn’t a fruit salad but rather it is is fruit bowl. And that rang true. Telling somebody where you live is built in with assumptions about your place. And often describing unfamiliar places is accompanied with quips like “that’s where x lives”. And the discussion that Melina Marchetta makes in Looking for Alibrandi where people live in Sydney and they never interact.

I’ve come from a small world and its one that I didn’t fit in. My beliefs eventually made me more different although it was ongoing trend. The straw that broke the camel’s back was the treatment of women in that place. And although I know many strong women, they were not acknowledged in leadership and that showed me their patriarchal underpinnings. Although some were able to square the circle of this I was not able to. This world was stifling small, although I acknowledge very comfortable for others.

When I left I was so keen to find new bigger worlds, and in the seven years that I have left this world I have been reminded that although this is small and I didn’t fit in, there are many small worlds that exist in similar ways. I’ve come to understand that the world is small and Sydney is even smaller as I find mutuals in the most disparate of places. I’ve been given a unique perspective as someone who has explored more a than few small worlds, and I have concluded that the problems that have been identified as problems of small religious communities are found in many different small communities. And similar processes about effectively shielding those with serious concerns.

There is a underlying fetishism that with the ongoing crisis, small communities are the way that we support our out of these. It’s one that I still believe with caveats. Although I know that in times of crisis there is increased social cohesion as reflected in the increase over lock downs, when the immediate crisis goes away like it has now, then we are left without similar levels. The problem is that the affects of climate change are evident but they aren’t being felt in the small communities that most Sydney-siders reside in. Although with the outer rim of Sydney being more prone to bush fires there is less necessity overall.

The segregation in Sydney is now pushing its residents to be pushed out, and this dispersal of real options for younger people is fueling their lack of social cohesion. The reality of needing any kind of intergenerational wealth is becoming more and more relevant. And those who set policy controls are those who have benefited from stability and security in housing and work in a way that we can only aspire to.