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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

Aspirations of residents from culturally diverse backgrounds moving to MPEs in newly emerging suburbs


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
New residential land in the outer suburbs of metropolitan Melbourne is predominantly being developed in the form of Masterplanned Estates. These areas are becoming culturally diverse with a significant proportion of recently arrived migrants settling there. This paper investigates the aspirations of the residents of choosing to live there and the influence the concept of...
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Place quality in urban streets of TOD precincts


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
Transit oriented planning for Activity Centres and Corridors in Australian cities envisions main thoroughfares which not only allow for vehicular movement but support a diverse range of human activities, not dissimilar from a traditional high street atmosphere. Typically the arrangement of these environments is dominated by vehicular movement and traffic capacity concerns resulting from decades...
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What if Australia's housing affordability stress measure doesn't actually measure housing affordability stress?


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
The long-run worsening of Australia’s housing affordability problems are especially concentrated in our cities. Underlying any policy solutions proposed by governments, is a pressing need to understand who has unaffordable housing, and how they are affected. We have previously proposed that the most widely used affordability measure underlying policy and research is only able to...
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#PressPause: large scale urban renewal and public participation


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
This paper explores how participatory processes and the politics of contestation and resistance attempt to influence discourses in government initiated urban renewal. The focus is specifically on the North Parramatta urban renewal project and the role of power relations and legitimacy discourses in participatory processes established by a government owned land developer, in this case...
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Relational planning and performative sub-regional strategies: analysing the construction of the Sydney Global City Region through an assemblage framework


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
The construction of ‘Global Cities’ have become contemporary grand projects with a shift from cities to agglomerations of city-regions increasingly prioritised in strategic plans. This has been necessitated by an increasing emphasis on mobilities through network structures of nodes and flows, and has been adopted by the inclusion of relational planning models in parallel with...
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