Conference

8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia

Owning Institution

The State of Australian Cities (SOAC) national conferences have been held biennially since 2003 to support interdisciplinary policy-related urban research. SOAC 2017 was jointly hosted in Adelaide by the University of South Australia, the University of Adelaide and Flinders University.

Refereed papers at SOAC 2017 were organized across the seven well-established themes of Economy, Environment, Governance, Structure, Movement and Infrastructure, Housing and Social, and Health. There were also three significant plenary panel sessions on Housing Affordability, Urban Resilience and the continuing challenge of achieving more productive relationships between academic researchers and urban policymakers.

Papers from all past and subsequent SOAC conferences can be found at the State of Australian Cities Conferences Collection on APO.

Conference paper

The impacts of syntactic measures on pedestrian movement: a comparative meta-analytic review between developing and developed countries

18 Jun 2018

Samia Sharmin,

MD Kamruzzaaman

8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia

Ample research has been conducted investigating the built environment (BE) impacts on pedestrian movement (PM). A clear division is evident in the literature on BE-PM links: one group tends to use geographic measures (metric distance) of the environment to explain pedestrian behaviour; the other group uses syntactic/space syntax measures (visual distance). Many review articles have...

Conference paper

Planning for population decline in an era of standardization: an analysis of plans in three declining Local Government Areas in NSW

18 Jun 2018

Laura Schatz

8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia

In countries throughout the developed world, large cities are growing while hinterland communities are shrinking. The unique challenges posed by population decline require unique solutions: as shrinking cities researchers have found, superimposing growth-oriented strategies onto shrinking communities is not effective in addressing the impacts of population decline. At the same time, a trend has emerged...

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Road pricing and the balance of power in Australia and New Zealand

18 Jun 2018

Eric Keys

8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia

Road pricing might seem a great idea but the accepted wisdom is that it will never happen in Australia or New Zealand. However, moves have been afoot in Auckland and Melbourne since the early 2000s to consider schemes for both cities. In Auckland the national and regional governments are now committed to the first stage...

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Modelling for housing choice behaviour

18 Jun 2018

Li Meng,

Michael A. P. Taylor,

Derek Scrafton

8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia

This study applies discrete choice models for analysing travel and location choice behaviour of different populations in a suburban rail corridor. The models developed in the study provide flexible structures in estimating the interactive relationships of variables across individuals and alternatives in housing preferences. Statistically significant indicators are identified to explain travel and residential behavioural...

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Housing senior Australians: three typologies of senior cohousing

18 Jun 2018

8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia

Australia’s population is ageing rapidly, yet we continue to make housing choices as though we will never grow old. New housing typologies, including alternative finance and governance models, will be needed to provide housing options suitable to our ageing population. An emerging response is cohousing, which has the potential to provide liveability, affordability and connectivity...