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

Relational planning and performative sub-regional strategies: analysing the construction of the Sydney Global City Region through an assemblage framework

18 Jun 2018

Kane Pham

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

The construction of ‘Global Cities’ have become contemporary grand projects with a shift from cities to agglomerations of city-regions increasingly prioritised in strategic plans. This has been necessitated by an increasing emphasis on mobilities through network structures of nodes and flows, and has been adopted by the inclusion of relational planning models in parallel with...

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Can ‘codification’ of development rights support increased and more diverse housing supply?

18 Jun 2018

Catherine Gilbert,

Nicole Gurran

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

Over the past decade, amidst growing concerns about perceived mismatches between housing demand and supply, the state of New South Wales (NSW) has introduced a range of major changes to land use policy and development assessment processes. Designed to address regulatory impediments to new and more diverse housing development, these changes have included the introduction...

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Multi-stakeholder collaboration to achieve urban greening and cooling in Melbourne: a case study on Greening the West

18 Jun 2018

Casey Furlong,

Kath Phelan,

Jago Dodson

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

Greening the West (GTW) is a regional initiative aimed at increasing urban greening, particularly the number of trees, in Melbourne’s western suburbs. This research has found that through creating a critical mass of urban greening advocates, and a sophisticated communications strategy, GTW has been able to accrue significant external funding which has resulted in noticeable...

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Designing high density, inner city, residential developments for families with young children: a review of evidence for best practise

18 Jun 2018

Sarah Volders,

Fiona J. Andrews

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

There are currently many families with young children living in inner city Melbourne, in high density apartment buildings designed for singles or couples without children, which has significant implications for children’s health and development. This literature review formed part of a wider research project with the City of Yarra, an inner Melbourne Council with increasing...

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Imagining transport futures and the geography of transport fortunes

18 Jun 2018

Crystal Legacy

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

This paper examines citizen resistance against two proposed inner city toll ways, and the reimagining of transport futures and prospects they inspired. The proposed East West Link was fiercely contested attracting considerable consternation from across multiple urban publics, extending beyond residents living within the corridor of the project to include long-standing public transport advocates, Victorian-based...