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

Ships, planes and automobiles - the perils and pluses of place-making in an outer Melbourne suburb

11 Dec 2015

Louise Johnson,

Fiona J. Andrews,

Elyse Warner

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

This paper reports on a sample of resident experiences of place-making in outer suburban Melbourne which highlights some of the local complexities of making a place.

Conference paper

Interdisciplinary tools to enable middle suburb regeneration

11 Dec 2015

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

Due to the unsustainable nature of urban sprawl, Australian metropolitan strategies have increasing been pushing for increased levels of infill: the redevelopment of existing urban (typically residential) land. However, the current infill models of Brownfield and lot-by-lot redevelopment are largely incapable of generating the volume or range of future housing needs. This issue has led...

Conference paper

A conceptual framework for assessing green infrastructure sustainability performance in Australia

11 Dec 2015

Parisa Pakzad,

Paul Osmond

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

This paper proposes a methodology and a conceptual framework for evaluating green infrastructure performance. This proposed framework combines three key themes: ecosystem services, human health and wellbeing and ecosystem health.

Conference paper

Vanity unfair - examining the impact of development authorities on the designation and development of public space: Barangaroo case study

11 Dec 2015

Kane Pham

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

This paper will begin to construct an argument for a more inclusive, adaptive and interdisciplinary planning process that realigns contemporary planning theory with practice.

Conference paper

Incremental intensification: transit-oriented re-development of small-lot corridors

11 Dec 2015

Lucinda Pike,

Ian Woodcock,

Kim Dovey

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

This paper explores the degree to which small and narrow lots constrain urban intensification through a study of a series of tram corridors in Melbourne.