How to develop sustainable, mixed communities: experience from outside Scotland
Glasgow, 28th November 2007
About this event
At the Scottish Centre for Regeneration, we believe that creating sustainable, mixed communities can have many benefits. It can improve people’s lives – their health, wellbeing, prosperity and job opportunities – and lead to safer and more attractive communities.
This event was to help us to learn from experiences of mixed communities elsewhere in Europe – particularly focusing on the Netherlands and Ireland. We were lucky to have some of Europe’s most experienced practitioners at this event.
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“Informative, interesting and relevant to current work” “An excellent, enlightening and inspiring day” |
Access the materials used at this event. Please note that we have edited the photographs from the presentations to reduce download time.
Presentation 1: Introduction to Sustainable, Mixed Communities
Shona Stephen, Communities Scotland
Presentation 2: Experience from the Netherlands (1)
Trevor James, Van Nimwegan and Partners
Presentation 3: Experience from the Netherlands (2)
Robert Leferink, City of Amsterdam, Project Management Bureau
Presentation 4: Experience from the Dublin Dockyards
Peter Coyne, Coyne Associates Ltd
Find out more about this topic
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Mixed Communities Website Access a wide range of resources at the renewal.net Mixed Communities Site. This site includes demonstration projects from England. And it has a wealth of information and research on: |
Guidance and examples from the UK Get practical advice about mixed communities in new good practice guidance on Creating and Sustaining Mixed Income Communities. |
Mixed communities in the Netherlands Trevor Jones, one of the speakers at our event, has written a paper on the Dutch experience of mixed communities. This is a large file which may take a while to download. But it is a very useful summary of the Dutch approach. |
Research in the UK, Europe and the USA In The Mix reviews what is known about mixed tenure, mixed income and mixed communities. It focused mainly on evidence from the UK, but also draws on research from Australia, France, Holland and the USA. |
Transatlantic perspectives: the UK and the USA In 2005, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation reviewed and compared experience and evidence of mixed communities in the UK and the USA. Find out more… A similar piece of work was done by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 2002. This focused more specifically on the built environment, and how it can help to create mixed communities. |
Are mixed communities the answer? The concept of mixed communities is just one of many initiatives aimed at reducing the gap between those with opportunities, and those without. But do mixed communities actually help to achieve this? Find out more in the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s short and well written review of the impact of mixed communities on poverty. |
Learning Points At the Scottish Centre for Regeneration, we have lots of Learning Points covering different elements of sustainable communities – including changing the way people think and feel about places, and creating places people want to live, work and visit. We also have profiles of how people have created vibrant and mixed communities. |
A background reading list is also available
