Planning for Sustainable Communities

A multi-disciplinary research workshop was held on 27th October 2010 on the theme of 'Planning for Sustainable Communities'. The workshop was part the programme of events for the semester organised by the Space and Society Research Group and it was well attended by staff and students from Town and Regional Planning, Geography and Architecture as well as a number of planners from planning practice. The three papers, which addressed theoretical, policy and practical dimensions of the topic, were:

• 'Connectivity: responsibility and responsiveness in the new localism'
  Prof. Nick Gallent, The Bartlett School of Planning, UCL
• 'Sub-Urban: A Context That Is Not Strictly Rural'
  Dr Neil Burford, School of Architecture, University of Dundee
• 'Design Coding in Scotland: Lessons from the Scottish Sustainable Communities Initiative in Tornagrain'
  Dr Deepak Gopinath, David Kirk &Graeme Hutton, Schools of Social and Environmental Sciences and Architecture, University of Dundee