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

People, places and technology: mapping the locational preferences of home based workers in Sydney and Melbourne metropolitan areas

11 Dec 2015

Matthew Zenkteler,

Sebastien Darchen,

Iderlina Mateo-Babiano,

Anthony Halog

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

This paper is an attempt to provide a better understanding of the impacts of work from anywhere on cities, through analysis of a spatial distribution of home based workers in Sydney and Melbourne metropolitan areas.

Conference paper

The towards a resilient Sydney project: from collective assessment to strategic frameworks

11 Dec 2015

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

This paper explores key questions of how qualitative evidence and collective outputs are interpreted and implemented, and how strategic frameworks can account for and foster “on ground” climate change adaptation action.

Conference paper

Improving integrated planning in Melbourne: exploring barriers and enablers of health-promoting policy integration

11 Dec 2015

Melanie Lowe,

Carolyn Whitzman,

Billie Giles-Corti

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

This paper explores barriers and enablers of health-promoting integrated planning in Melbourne, focussing on horizontal integration across Victorian state government departments and agencies.

Conference paper

Divided cities? Measuring the significance of, and relative contribution to ethnic segregation in Australia's capital cities

11 Dec 2015

Xavier Goldie

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

In this work, the author uses the recent introduction of a surface based segregation approach to determine the patterns of pairwise spatial segregation between 12 ethnic groups of the 2011 census across Australia’s capital cities.

Conference paper

Good design- A case for adopting a user centred approach to medium density housing

11 Dec 2015

Melinda Dodson,

Andrew MacKenzie

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

This research traces the emergence of the compact housing agenda in Australian cities with a particular reference to the early experiments in Canberra during the early 1960s and 1970s.