Nick Phelps of the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London (UCL) organized a one day workshop on the May 14, 2012 to discuss the 'Governance of European suburbs'. The workshop took place in the Haldane Room UCL and forms part of the work of the Europe research cluster of the MCRI 'Global Suburbanisms' project.

The day was co-funded by the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL. Speakers on the day included: Ute Lehrer, Roza Tchoukaleyska Per Gunnar Roe, Sonia Hirt, Ludger Basten, Amparo Tarazona Vento, Dimitris Ballas, Christian Schmid, Woijiech Wagner, and Nick Phelps. They covered aspects of suburbanisation in Athens, London Madrid, Montpellier, Oslo, the Ruhr Region, Sofia, Warsaw and Lodz, Zurich. The speakers were joined by Alan Mace and Iain Gordon of LSE, Laura Vaughan, Sonia Arbaci, Fulong Wu and Andrew Harris of UCL and Roya Jodieri of Arup.

For more details about this workshop, please see the below link:

http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/planning/news/phelps-global-suburbanisms