Conference

6th State of Australian Cities Conference, 26-29 November 2013, Sydney, 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 6 was held in Sydney and hosted by the University of New South Waltes, Griffith University, the Australian National University and The University of Sydney.

All papers presented at the SOAC 2013 have been subject to a double blind refereeing process and have been reviewed by at least two referees. In particular, the review process assessed each paper in terms of its policy relevance and the contribution to the conceptual or empirical understanding of Australian cities.

Papers from all past and subsequent SOAC conferences can be found at the State of Australian Cities Conferences Collection on APO.

Conference paper

Working with housing variance to model urban growth futures within inner metropolitan Melbourne

29 Nov 2013

Yolanda Esteban,

John Rollo

6th State of Australian Cities Conference, 26-29 November 2013, Sydney, Australia

Working with the prospect of establishing a more compact city in order to meet an inner city target of 90,000 new dwellings (Inner Metropolitan Action Plan - IMAP Strategy 5), this paper presents a ‘Housing Variance Model’ based on household structure and dwelling type.

Conference paper

Governance of public land acquisition for regional open space in Perth and Sydney

29 Nov 2013

Neil Foley,

Peter Williams

6th State of Australian Cities Conference, 26-29 November 2013, Sydney, Australia

The focus of this paper is a comparison of the history of the governance of regional public land acquisition in Perth and Sydney, with the case for the selection of these two cities established by a contrast of the planning approaches used.

Conference paper

Understanding Australian parents' attitudes about their children's travel behaviour: results from the CATCH and iMATCH projects

29 Nov 2013

6th State of Australian Cities Conference, 26-29 November 2013, Sydney, Australia

The paper explores on data from 232 questionnaire surveys completed by parents and guardians of 10-13 year olds who were recruited from primary schools in six neighbourhoods in Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane/Ipswich about the reasons parents grant ‘licences’ to their children for independent mobility and active travel.

Conference paper

Road costs associated with differing forms of urban development

29 Nov 2013

Martin Nichols

6th State of Australian Cities Conference, 26-29 November 2013, Sydney, Australia

This paper presents some preliminary results from PhD research being undertaken which, more broadly, considers infrastructure costs associated with differing forms of urban development available to policy makers within Australia. It is thus a component of the ‘compact’ versus ‘dispersed’ city debate.

Conference paper

Vertical mixed use communities, a compact city model?

29 Nov 2013

Iderlina Mateo-Babiano,

Sebastien Darchen

6th State of Australian Cities Conference, 26-29 November 2013, Sydney, Australia

Cities have advocated more compact development patterns to address the need to accommodate a burgeoning urban population. One such compact model is the vertical mixed-use (VMU) development.