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

Airbnb in Melbourne: how does the existing urban spatial structure shape the location of short-term accommodation sharing economy activity?

18 Jun 2018

Vanessa O'Shea,

Sun Sheng Han

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

Airbnb is a short-term accommodation in the sharing economy platform that has become increasingly prevalent since its inception in 2008. Despite the growth of Airbnb, limited research has been focussed on understanding how this facet of the sharing economy interacts with the existing urban spatial structure. Within this paper metropolitan Melbourne is used as a...

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Qualitative evaluation tool of built environment soundscapes: report on a prototype data collection tool

18 Jun 2018

Anthony Karro,

Robyn Creagh

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

Sound is a dynamic part of the urban landscape and is increasingly understood to be a central aspect that helps to shape people’s experiences of the public realm. Australian urban planners, however, have little engagement with the theories on urban sounds, and as a result, no methodologies have developed to evaluate, describe and measure the...

Conference paper

Listening to and learning from some of Melbourne’s younger planning practitioners

18 Jun 2018

John Jackson

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

This paper investigates the professional experiences of eleven young Melbourne planners, interviewed in late 2016. They were encouraged to speak as they wished about themselves, their careers to date and planning more generally. Initial interpretation is based on themes they raised. Subsequent use of neoliberalism as a conceptual analytical tool promises to be equally revealing.

Conference paper

From rationalism to critical pragmatism: revisiting Arnstein’s ladder of public participation in co-creation and consultation

18 Jun 2018

Aaron Davis,

Jane Andrew

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

Governments and cities around Australia and indeed the world have recognised the need to shift toward more inclusive decision making processes, particularly when dealing with issues of the public realm. Despite some significant efforts in this space, including in the creation of urban living laboratories, there is a continued scepticism of consultative processes, and little...

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Urban development and land contaminants migration - a case study of Huntsman chemical plant in Melbourne

18 Jun 2018

Jianqiang Cui,

Siqing Chen

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

This paper investigates the natural and urban factors that impact the spatial migration of land contaminants.