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

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.

Conference paper

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...

Conference paper

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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Small urban manufacturing in Melbourne, Australia: an issues framing paper

18 Jun 2018

Simon Carter,

Jennifer Day

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

Small urban manufacturers (‘makers’) are scattered throughout the inner suburbs of Australian cities. Makers differ in many ways from traditional industry in the small-scale of their operations, their connection to their materials, tools and methods, their commitment to their neighbourhood and community, and their philosophical approach to their work.

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Inequitable density: the place of lower-income and disadvantaged residents in the compact city

18 Jun 2018

Laura Crommelin,

Laurence Troy,

Hazel Easthope

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

Compact city policies have become planning orthodoxy over the past three decades. But compact city development takes many forms, and the compact city concept often obscures a diverse range of social, economic and environmental outcomes of urban densification. In Australia the compact city agenda has primarily taken the form of market-led urban renewal, facilitated by...