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

Does strategic planning provide the clarity it claims? Framing land-use conflict as competing interpretations of the same planning concept: the case of the 'mixed-use neighbourhood'

11 Dec 2015

Ryan van den Nouwelant

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

Using textual analysis techniques, this paper unpacks the planning concept of the mixed-use neighbourhood, as used in Sydney’s planning strategies.

Conference paper

Using the land-use planning system to achieve transport-planning outcomes: comparing experiences between NSW and the UK

11 Dec 2015

Laura Wynne

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

Drawing on interviews and key policy documents, the review compared key policy mechanisms relating to the development, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of travel plans, identifying factors in the UK system that were lacking in NSW.

Conference paper

Practising architecture in global Sydney: re-theorising the architecture of the global city

11 Dec 2015

Elizabeth Adamczyk

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

Informed by research on the practices of how city builders materialise architecture in Global Sydney, this paper argues that deploying assemblage thinking – with the analytical attention that it is able to afford to practices – is able to challenge the hegemonic claims of orthodox approaches to understanding architecture in the global city.

Conference paper

Carbon Footprint of an Australian Coastal Town: An Assessment of Three Planning Scenarios at Neighbourhood Level

11 Dec 2015

Siqing Chen,

Sun Sheng Han

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

The highly populated coastal cities and towns in Australia are also most vulnerable places to climate change induced by increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emission through anthropogenic activities. It is estimated that urban areas account for 60-80% of the global energy use and emit more than 70% of global greenhouse gases. Since most future population growth...

Conference paper

Strategic action and planning change: regulatory changes and bushfire resilience

11 Dec 2015

Maria Kornakova,

Alan March,

Brendan Gleeson

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

This research paper aims to provide better understanding of the manner in which changes occur via strategic planning.