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8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia

Owning Institution
Australasian Cities Research Network

The State of Australian Cities (SOAC) national conferences have been held biennially since 2003 to support interdisciplinary policy-related urban research. SOAC 2017 was jointly hosted in Adelaide by the University of South Australia, the University of Adelaide and Flinders University.

Refereed papers at SOAC 2017 were organized across the seven well-established themes of Economy, Environment, Governance, Structure, Movement and Infrastructure, Housing and Social, and Health. There were also three significant plenary panel sessions on Housing Affordability, Urban Resilience and the continuing challenge of achieving more productive relationships between academic researchers and urban policymakers. 

Papers from all past and subsequent SOAC conferences can be found at the State of Australian Cities Conferences Collection on APO.

Conference paper

Housing senior Australians: three typologies of senior cohousing


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
Australia’s population is ageing rapidly, yet we continue to make housing choices as though we will never grow old. New housing typologies, including alternative finance and governance models, will be needed to provide housing options suitable to our ageing population. An emerging response is cohousing, which has the potential to provide liveability, affordability and connectivity...
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Restoring Yarra: an experiment in linking restorative and deliberative practices to address urban contestation and social inequality


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
Contestation resulting from (and further embedding) spatial and social injustice in cities is one of the most intractable issues facing theorists and practitioners in contemporary cities. Approaching contestation via retributive, procedural or distributive justice lenses alone have led to different urban solutions but also failed to redress social and spatial injustice in sustainable ways for...
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‘What the stones tell us’: Challenges facing Aboriginal stone installations and metropolitan urban expansion


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
Aboriginal stone arrangements in Australia are rarely found intact. These installations are even more difficult to appreciate their existence, to understand their cultural roles and narratives for Aboriginal communities, and conclusively understand what they mean to current generations. Many reside in the individual and or collective memory of Aboriginal Elders and their existence and purpose...
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The evaluation of urban development project by approach of landscape urbanism tenets: the case study of Bowden, Adelaide


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
Shortage of natural landscape in contemporary cities causes urban environments to lose vibrancy and attractiveness for human inhabitants. Urban development is driven by excessing need for density to accommodate urban dwellers in less energy and infrastructure demanding urban settings. However, urban development – in its business as usual practice – is commonly accompanied by replacing...
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Facilitators of social connectedness in new outer suburban communities


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
Social connectedness increases physical and psychological wellbeing, reducing rates of morbidity and mortality. New communities, on the fringe of Australian cities, have residents who are at particular risk of social isolation, making it important to identify facilitators of social connectedness that could be utilised in these settings. Whilst a myriad of programs exist, the evidence...
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