Conference

7th State of Australian Cities Conference, 9-11 December 2015, Gold Coast, 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 7 was held in the City of Gold Coast and hosted by Griffith University.

The 164 peer reviewed papers were organised into seven broad themes but all shared, to varying degrees, a common focus on the ways in which high quality academic research can be used in the development and implementation of policy. The conference featured leading national and local politicians and policy makers who shared their views on some of the current challenges facing cities and how these might be overcome in the future.

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

Conference paper

Urban design: an underutilized tool for disaster risk reduction?

11 Dec 2015

Alan March,

Jorge Leon

7th State of Australian Cities Conference, 9-11 December 2015, Gold Coast, Australia

This paper provides a framework for integration of urban design, based on core principles from both the urban design and disaster risk reduction fields of theory and practice, identified from relevant literature in these areas.

Conference paper

Making places: creativity, craft and manufacture in Shanghai

11 Dec 2015

Xin Gu

7th State of Australian Cities Conference, 9-11 December 2015, Gold Coast, Australia

From the 1980s European and North American cities engaged in a process of ‘urban regeneration’ involving the displacement of manufacturing by finance, insurance and real estate (FIRE), cultural and creative industries, and tourism. Henceforth developed economies would produce ‘creative’ or ‘knowledge’ intensive services and developing countries would provide outsourced manufacturing along global supply chains.

Conference paper

Sustainability at the Australian local government level: Is there room for Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)?

11 Dec 2015

Umberto Baresi,

Karen Vella,

Neil Sipe

7th State of Australian Cities Conference, 9-11 December 2015, Gold Coast, Australia

Focusing on planning practices at the local and regional levels, this paper investigates how environmental sustainability is pursued from an institutional perspective.

Conference paper

Solomon heights: a zombie subdivision?

11 Dec 2015

Elizabeth Taylor,

David Nichols,

Victoria Kolankiewicz

7th State of Australian Cities Conference, 9-11 December 2015, Gold Coast, Australia

This paper examines the history of the ‘100 years of inaction’ in Soloman Heights urban planning. With particular attention to the efforts by the current responsible Local Government Authority to broker a satisfactory outcome for all stakeholders.

Conference paper

Factors influencing public transport use: a study of university commuters' travel and mode choice behaviours

11 Dec 2015

Dong Wang,

Yan Liu

7th State of Australian Cities Conference, 9-11 December 2015, Gold Coast, Australia

This study examines travel patterns and identifies factors that influence commuters’ choice of travel mode, using web-based surveys conducted in two consecutive years of 2013 and 2014 in the University of Queensland (UQ).