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 guidelines for places with restorative values

11 Dec 2015

Nigel Cartlidge,

Lynne Armitage,

Daniel O'Hare

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

This paper proposes an urban design model for the governance of accessibility to the inviting, secure and comfortable places associated with the values found in restorative environments.

Conference paper

Retirement village or the general community? Downsizing choices of older Australians

11 Dec 2015

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

This paper compares the demographic characteristics of these two groups, circumstances leading to moving, considerations made in their choice of accommodation, difficulty of the moving process and their satisfaction with the outcomes

Conference paper

Planning regulation and the mediation of housing outcomes: new evidence from planners in four metropolitan regions

11 Dec 2015

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

This paper goes beneath the quantitative analysis of regulatory difference to understand qualitatively how different planning settings might affect residential development decisions and patterns of new housing supply in four metropolitan regions.

Conference paper

Noosa climate action plan: An example of collaborative climate governance?

11 Dec 2015

Kava Piran,

Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes

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

Noosa Climate Action Plan (NCAP) is a unique community driven plan which combines top-down and bottom-up approaches and is supported by a wide range of stakeholders. This paper evaluates the NCAP process in order to evaluate its success as a collaborative planning process in developing effective climate change adaptation plans.

Conference paper

Analysis of governance for sustainability planning in the Cairns region

11 Dec 2015

Ruth Potts,

Karen Vella

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

This paper analyses the sustainability planning governance arrangements in the Cairns region by exploring the capacity, connectivity and knowledge use of institutions in the region to deliver desired sustainability planning outcomes.