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
Decarbonising the local economy: planning for renewable energy in urban areas
Mechanisms for transitioning towards a low carbon economy include technological shifts, policy development and programs that require changes in behaviour. Arguably, local councils are well positioned to drive some or all of these.
Conference paper
Facilitating faster approval: council reflections on the changing NSW planning and development assessment process
This paper explores two significant changes to the policy framework directing development assessment in NSW over the past 5 years: the implementation of Part 3A within the NSW Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, 1979; and, a series of reforms implemented under the Improving the NSW Planning System agenda.
Conference paper
After the crash: options for large cities in Australia, post-prosperity
The paper presents findings of two research tasks: an audit of infrastructure provision in Australian cities during the long period of prosperity, and an assessment of the locational consequences of the major employment shifts that occurred in Australia in roughly the same time period.
Conference paper
Out of reach: new approaches to modelling low-SES access to destinations in Australian cities
Access to essential goods and services is increasingly recognised as a key factor influencing household socio-economic vulnerability and disadvantage within cities. Socio-economic status and spatial location partly determine differential accessibility.
Conference paper
Sustainability – are we there yet (and would we know it if we got there?)
Environmental policy making and its implementation has in the main suffered from a lack of credible review and evaluation. This has resulted in a generally poor understanding of policy effectiveness, or success, especially in terms of outcomes achieved and their linkages to the policies that underpin them.