Conference
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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
Local-area sustainability assessment system: a theoretical and operational overview
This paper provides a theoretical and operational overview of a new integrated urban sustainability assessment framework named as Local area Envisioning and Sustainability Scoring system (LESS).
Conference paper
I’ll have my city medium thanks. What do medium sized cities offer an urban planning and policy agenda?
Research relating to Australia’s urban planning and policy agenda is dominated by what happens in Australia’s five metropolitan cities. However the growth of Australia’s medium cities and the sources of this population growth, suggests an increasing importance for many medium-sized cities.
Conference paper
Sustainable or Status-quo: investigating sustainability assessment of residential estate development
Urban fringe residential estates continue to dominate the residential development sector in Australia. Several practice based sustainability assessment tools have recently been developed which acknowledge the impacts of such developments and attempt to improve outcomes. This paper examines how sustainability principles and concepts are presented and applied in such assessment tools, focusing on two Australian...
Conference paper
Trends and spatial patterns of infill development in Melbourne metropolitan local government areas
The synthesis presented here refers to infill mapping in different local government areas in the Middle and Outer regions of the Melbourne Metropolitan Area (MMA), including Monash, Knox, Casey, and Whittlesea local government areas.
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How the west was lost – the causes and consequences of under-investment in Western Sydney’s infrastructure
This paper discusses the consequences of past and current political resistance to investment in public transport, especially rail infrastructure, in Western Sydney and the implications for the region of further inaction.