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

Metro-bound commuting and regional development: evidence from Victoria

18 Jun 2018

Todd Denham

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

Metro-bound commuters are people who live in regional areas and travel to major cities for work, connecting regional cities and towns with the major cities and their prospering economies. As governments invest in regional transport infrastructure, as well as become concerned about spatial inequity, how regional development outcomes can be obtained from metro-bound commuting is...

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Civic leadership in transport planning in Auckland

18 Jun 2018

Imran Muhammad

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

Transport planning in Auckland provides limited opportunities for genuine public involvement in defining transport problems and their solutions. In recent years, this scenario has changed due to the emergence of proactive community groups in transport planning debate in Auckland. The purpose of this paper is to explore proactive community groups, their roles and impact on...

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Planning healthy neighbourhoods: Addressing the links between health, wellbeing, health equity and neighbourhood built form

18 Jun 2018

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

The social determinants of health (SDH) are recommended as a policy focus for governments seeking to increase health and wellbeing, and maintain control of health care budgets. Urban planning influences the SDH by shaping the physical and social aspects of neighbourhoods, creating conditions that can either support or detract from the promotion of physical activity...

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Dormancy in two regional cities and its relevance to the growth of Sydney

18 Jun 2018

Jonathan Drane

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

The dormant cityscape continues to haunt many of our burgeoning, high growth cities. Former port lands, ‘brownfield’ sites and degraded suburban areas persist in these states for what appears to be decades without any apparent revival. Despite the usual forms of planning, zoning and controls they appear to display obstinacy over large time periods that...

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Walking for recreation: an innovative method for creating a GIS-based walkability surface on the Gold Coast, Australia

18 Jun 2018

Heather Shearer

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

Encouraging greater levels of physical activity is a key policy focus in many urban areas, given the link between this and improved physical and mental health outcomes. The majority of previous studies on walkability however, have focussed on walking for transport; and generally consisted of creating desktop based walkability indices using variables such as residential...