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
Suburbs in the ‘Global City’: labour markets in Western Sydney since the mid 1990s
This paper challenges these interpretations of Sydney’s outer suburban areas by exploring employment and labour market changes between 1996 and 2001.
Conference paper
Nature and culture in the backyard
This paper draws on examples from a wider study of Australian backyards to inform debate on three themes: urban consolidation vs urban expansion; the ecologies of urban areas; the importance of ethnographic and qualitative research methods in studying human/environment interactions in urban areas.
Conference paper
Planning under-empowerment and urban over-development in inner Sydney
Exploring the way in which the exercise of power by developers, stemming from superior money-based resources, distorts planning processes, this paper looks at how urban over-development can occur even when planning controls to limit development to levels acceptable to the community are in place.
Conference paper
Migration motives and outcomes
This paper outlines some of the key findings of two complementary research projects both of which studied intra- migration within the Australian states of New South Wales and South Australia.
Conference paper
Greater Western Sydney regional transportation study: forecasting travel demand
This paper is based on a consulting project undertaken for the Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils (WSROC) to help understand the travel demand patterns that might arise from various land use and transport infrastructure scenarios in Western Sydney.