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

Human dimensions of residential sector energy consumption

11 Dec 2015

Lavinia Poruschi,

Christopher L. Ambrey

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

This paper uses an Australian national level dataset to explore the factors determining electricity consumption.

Conference paper

Migrant knowledge workers in global Melbourne: where do they live and where do they work?

11 Dec 2015

Sajeda Chowdhury Tuli,

Richard Hu

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

This paper analyses the spatial distribution of migrant knowledge workers in their place of work and place of residence to identify the different patterns between international and internal migrant knowledge workers.

Conference paper

Don't ask permission: live/work

11 Dec 2015

Andréanne Doyon

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

This paper revises the multi-level perspective to analyse policy innovations within urban transitions. This investigation is concerned with demonstrating how live/work accelerates as a sustainability transition and which governance structures, approaches to planning, and actors influence the process

Conference paper

Making health a planning priority: how was health framed in the review of the NSW planning system?

11 Dec 2015

Jennifer Kent

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

This paper provides novel insights as to how a review of planning legislation was influenced to consider health as a primary planning issue, and how health might be connected to other substantive issues in planning legislation and systems.

Conference paper

The wicked problems of Western Sydney's older suburbs

11 Dec 2015

Sharon Fingland

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

Through a case study of the challenges facing urban regeneration of the older suburbs of West-Central Sydney this paper explores the appropriateness of ‘social inclusion’ in guiding housing, employment and transport policy actions in this disadvantaged sub-region.