Social diversity

See also: Co-education

The social diversity consists, in a given geographical area, what people resulting from different socioprofessional categories (Standard of living, Culture S and/or national origins) côtoient, or cohabit. Social diversity generates populated heterogeneous districts distinct inhabitants by their incomes or their origins. Social mixing is facilitated by the legislations, but also by the social actors like the churches, the political parties, or the Associations. The economic actors, and in particular the companies, play also a part in terms of co-education by their policy of recruitment of Main-d'oeuvre. Contrary, the homogeneous districts gather a social class, or a community, precise. The socio-space segregation is supported by the dynamics of the Capitalisme which generates districts very differentiated in terms from incomes, and concentrations of ethnic minorities and populations reduced to poverty in the Banlieues of the cities. The Ghettos are the emblem of these territories of relegation. The enclaves " dorées" , equipped with a population richer than that of the surrounding districts also multiply, the Gated communities are thus closed districts of walls, supervised, and whose inhabitants are co-opted. One is obviously there with the antipodes of social diversity.

In France, within the framework of the law of the July 13rd 1991 of orientation for the city, social diversity is considered like a means of decreasing exclusions and what is called the Social fracture. Social diversity in France would be the equivalent of the Melting American pot . Nevertheless, if the United States is the country of the Melting-pot, they are also that of the Gated community…

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Utopias of the city, seminar CREHU, 2001 - article: social diversity: an urban and urban Utopia , Gerard Baudin, pp13-23

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