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

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.

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Urban campgrounds as service hubs for the marginally-housed

18 Jun 2018

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

Although the service hub concept is most commonly associated with deprived areas of the North American inner city, similar clusters of facilities can also be found in other contexts. In this paper, we conceptualise urban campgrounds in Auckland, New Zealand as small-scale service hubs for long-term residents as well as more transient recreational campers, and...

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Disrupting the status quo: local government efforts to implement ESD through land-use planning

18 Jun 2018

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

In the late 1990s a group of Victorian local government councils addressed a sustainability void in the building codes and planning regulations by developing capacity to implement Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) via the planning system. What began as a collection of largely independent initiatives progressed to an integrated suite of mechanisms to embed ESD in...

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Public wi-fi in Australian cities: are there lessons for ‘smart city’ government?

29 Nov 2017

Ian McShane,

Chris K. Wilson

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

Wireless communication is now integral to the social, economic and cultural life of cities and will become increasingly so as Internet of Things (IOT) technologies alter existing urban processes and generate entirely new ones. Although wireless connectivity engages almost all aspects of urban governance, management of the underpinning infrastructure is essentially a new field of...