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 long road to BIM: defining its relevancy and applicability to the Australian landscape architecture profession

18 Jun 2018

Michael Stitt

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

While the Australian Architecture profession has relatively quickly incorporated and accepted Building information modelling (BIM) as part of its normal work flow and practises, the Australian landscape architecture profession has been less than accepting of BIM it as a management model. This problem is exacerbated within the Australian Landscape Architecture profession, where very little discourse...

Conference paper

Crowding, housing and health: an exploratory study of Australian cities

18 Jun 2018

Shanaka Herath,

Rebecca Bentley

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

Australian capital cities are among the most expensive in the world, and the persistent shortage of affordable housing is a significant driver of housing overcrowding, particularly in the private rental sector. Health and wellbeing issues arise from closer contact between household members including increased spread of communicable infections, sleep disruption, lack of privacy and an...

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Undermining the tunnel: the problem-solution nexus of Melbourne's East-West tunnel

18 Jun 2018

Nathan Pittman,

Sophie Sturup,

Jennifer Day

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

This paper explores the development of the ‘problem-solution nexus’ of a cancelled mega urban transport project in Melbourne, Australia. The East-West Link (Eastern Section) was the most recent iteration of a cross-town motorway connection that has been proposed numerous times since the 1960s, most recently in early 2013. After a State parliamentary election in November...

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Developing multi-unit housing without developers. Or, “without a developer, who does the … … … ?”

18 Jun 2018

Jasmine Palmer

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

Motivated by discontent with the quality, design, and cost of speculative multi-unit housing provision in Australia, households and professionals alike are increasingly seeking alternatives. Recent years have seen an increase in the number and university of households seeking to collectively self-develop multi-unit housing in our inner cities. Housing projects have formed from ground-up movements, professional...

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Urban planning's role in the development, transfer, and application of knowledge about bushfire risk management in Victoria

18 Jun 2018

Constanza Gonzalez-Mathiesen,

Alan March

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

Internationally, there is increasing concern with developing improved ways of dealing with disasters (UNISDR, 2015). The development of policy and practices for the reduction of disaster risk is intimately related to knowledge about dynamic and spatially particular risks and relevant ways of managing these via informed decisions and coordinated action (Weichselgartner and Pigeon, 2015).