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

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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

Understanding adaptive reuse diversity: heritage, brownfield sites and obsolete buildings


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
This discussion paper adopts a critical view of Adaptive Resuse (AR) of vacant buildings. It contributes to an understanding of AR in a policy context in SA and highlights recent policy developments in light of regulatory barriers cited as inhibitors of AR.
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Supporting evidence-informed urban policy and practice: a role for digital collections


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
Informed decision-making and democratic debate relies on access to urban policy resources. Such access is critical to understanding policy context, analysing path dependencies and critiquing accepted knowledge of what is possible for Australian cities. It can support systematic historical analysis—which can be an important tool for planning practitioners (Abbott & Sydler 1989; Ward, Freestone &...
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City sizes and economic inequality: role for urban planning?


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
In this conference papwer, urban planning strategies that may help to counter inequality producing mechanisms are presented.
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Urban policy or a ventilator: a regional Australian town in quandary


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
That urban growth in Australia is uneven in favor of cities than towns is no news. But that the policy for migration to growth centers in regional areas has also not helped should be of interest to policy-makers and planners. This paper aims at articulating the nature of regional urbanization and urban issues in regional...
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What do Australian urban planning scholars actually research?


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
As a relatively new field of research, urban planning is often perceived as neither a traditional academic discipline nor a “major profession” (Schon 1983). From Taylor and Hurley’s (2015) discouraging observation that “not many people read the stuff” to Randolph’s (2013) perhaps hyperbolic suggestion that university urban research may be “reaching an end game,” there...
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