Conference
Owning Institution
Hosted by the University of Western Sydney's Urban Frontiers Program the first State of Australian Cities conference brought together academics, practitioners and policy makers to discuss the current issues facing Australian cities. Papers from all subsequent SOAC conferences can be found at the State of Australian Cities Conferences Collection on APO.
Conference paper
Australia’s ‘high performance’ cities? Motorsport and sustainable urban environments
Despite the widespread acceptance of motorsport in Australian society, this paper argues that it is crucial for research to be undertaken that systematically investigates the environmental and public health impacts of motorsport events held in major urban public spaces.
Conference paper
Risk and security in Australian cities: Whose risk, whose responsibility?
This paper examines the evolution of risk and its governance in Australian cities - with the focus on Sydney. It considers the construction of risk and security and the roles played by different groups in defining these concepts, in constraining the choice of mitigation strategies and allocating responsibility and power.
Conference paper
The development of ethnic community capital in Sydney: creation of a multicultural city
Using the concept of “ethnic community capital” and using data provided by 344 ethnic communal organisations, this paper outlines major social, economic, and spatial aspects that have helped establish Sydney as a multicultural capital on the Pacific.
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A tale of two cities: urban form, housing densities and amenity
This paper inquires into our understanding of the compact European city that theorists see, compared with the actual form of some European cities as observed by the author.
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Environmental accounting: are there tools for living off the ecological interest and not the capital?
Since at least the 1960’s there has been a growing awareness that the whole of the human environment (its society and supporting ecosystems as well as its economy) needs to be better included in decision making. This awareness has not been restricted to a single discipline but has emerged in the fields of Land use...