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

Development of real-time transport applications in Sydney - a hybrid model

11 Dec 2015

Tim Tompson

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

The development of RT transport information mobile applications has become a focus of many public transport organisations due to their relatively low cost and high customer value. This paper explores a combinatorial approach taken by Transport for New South Wales, for the public transport network in Sydney, Australia.

Conference paper

Seniors' playgrounds may never get old

11 Dec 2015

Jessica Volkanovski,

Nancy Marshall

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

This paper introduces the concept of seniors’ playgrounds, documents their brief history and provides some planning principles and considerations based on current practice.

Conference paper

An exploratory analysis of Brisbane's commuter travel patterns using smart card data

11 Dec 2015

Ming Wei,

Yan Liu,

Thomas Sigler

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

By using five weekdays of passenger travel transaction data taken from go card – Southeast Queensland’s transit smart card – this paper analyses the spatiotemporal distribution of passenger movement with regard to the land use patterns in Brisbane.

Conference paper

The Role of Political and Financial Factors in the Provision of Parks: The Case of Logan City, Queensland

11 Dec 2015

Chris Boulton,

Jason Byrne,

Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes

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

Researchers have found that open space provision (e.g. parkland) is vitally important for meeting the social, economic and environmental needs of urban populations globally. The international literature on park provision identifies many factors that influence a local government’s ability to provide adequate parkland including political agendas, governance tools and resources.

Conference paper

The regulation of excellence: design competitions in Sydney

11 Dec 2015

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

Drawing on a City of Sydney database, and set against the wider institutional context, this paper identifies the major characteristics of urban planning developments and key aspects of the competitive process involved in terms of timelines, participants and outcomes.