Conference
Owning Institution
The State of Australian Cities (SOAC) national conferences have been held biennially since 2003 to support interdisciplinary policy-related urban research. This third conference was jointly hosted in Perth by the University of Western Australia, Curtin University, Murdoch University and Edith Cowan University.
Conference papers published from SOAC 4 were produced through a process of integrated peer review.
Papers from all past and subsequent SOAC conferences can be found at the State of Australian Cities Conferences Collection on APO.
Conference paper
Market or market place?
This paper draws upon three projects exploring the social implications of compact cities espoused in the current metropolitan strategies and explores the approaches employed and assess their success and limitations.
Conference paper
Local government in Perth: nineteenth century administration for a twenty first century city?
This paper considers why so many local authorities were established at the end of the nineteenth century and why there has been so little change since then, despite Perth growing more than tenfold since that time and radical local government reform has occurred in several other Australian capital cities.
Conference paper
Practitioners’ views on the past, present and future of social planning in Australia
Drawing on research findings from empirical survey research with sixty social planning practitioners in Australia, the paper briefly explores the diversity and shifting landscape of social planning practice over the past century before drawing on the survey findings to develop a picture of current social planning practice within Australia and the challenges and opportunities that...
Conference paper
Graffiti and urban character
The focus in this paper is on the ways graffiti is seen by residents to contribute to or damage urban character or place identity.
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Climate change and human settlements: methodology, case studies and issues arising
This paper presents selected findings of a completed project called “Integrated Assessment of Climate Change on Urban Settlements”.