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
Wheels still in spin?: Urban social structure and technological change in Brisbane’s private motor vehicle fleet
This paper examines the capacity of suburban households to respond to a changing global energy context by changing their motor vehicle technology.
Conference paper
Community formation and attitudes to sustainability: comparative case studies from Canberra
This paper reports on a case study on community formation and attitudes to sustainability in three Canberra suburbs, building on literature that see a strong sense of community as a necessarily element of making cities more sustainable.
Conference paper
Waning or just gone underground? Union power in public transport in Melbourne
This paper uses a case study of union power in public transport in Melbourne since the mid 1990s to show that union power remains a significant, though now largely hidden, obstacle to modernisation of the design and delivery of public transport in Australian cities.
Conference paper
Leviathans of leisure? - The licensed club sector within the economic and community life of Canberra
This paper seeks to better conceptualise licensed clubs as a diverse category of organisation, emerging and changing with the unfolding of Australian urban life.
Conference paper
A Local Housing Strategy in Inner City Perth
This research describes a Perth inner city local government authority’s attempts to instigate a housing strategy with particular focus on the provision of affordable housing.