10 YOUNG PEOPLE WANT LIVELY MIXED USE PLACES The Urban Taskforce believes that Sydney can have vital mixed use zones in many inner city areas which is where young people want to live and to work. Just look at the rise of shared working centres like WeWork where a cafe and home-like environment mixes with the dynamics of work. Just as Jane Jacobs called for in her 1961 book “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” it is a good mixture of primary uses that makes great cities work. Her book had a whole chapter on “The need for primary mixed uses” and another on “The generators of diversity”. Since 1961 cosmopolitan urban life has spread across the world’s cities. In Sydney it is the rise of apartment living that has fuelled this trend to urban living with younger people wanting to live in more urban locations closer to work and to public transport. Many of their preferred locations are where old industrial sites are struggling to be economically viable like Central Park on the site of the old brewery on Broadway, the CSR site in Pyrmont or similar sites in South Sydney. THERE IS A BETTER WAY TO MANAGE INDUSTRIAL USES ACROSS SYDNEY THAT ENCOURAGES URBAN VITALITY SYDNEY SHOULD FOLLOW THE LEAD OF OTHER WORLD CITIES TOWARDS MIXED USE Just as the cities of PORTLAND, NEW YORK, VANCOUVER, ATLANTA, BALTIMORE, ADELAIDE and MELBOURNE are responding to the new approaches to work that are part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution so to should SYDNEY take a lead role to create an urban mixed use bustling character to the city. Modern living is changing from the strict demarcation between home and work that occurred in the past. It is this separation that has led to long commute times by car from low rise suburbs to the jobs in urban centres. Global cities understand that younger people are looking for an urban lifestyle where jobs, homes and shops interact. 01 02