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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

Building fire resilience in New Zealand: lessons learnt from the 2009 Victorian bushfires


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
The 2017 wildfires in the Port Hills, Christchurch, New Zealand, highlight the risk posed by fire adding to the portfolio of natural hazard risks facing New Zealanders. Traditionally, New Zealand places stronger emphasis on seismic and hydro-meteorological perils as they are more prevalent in the country. The Port Hills fire experience underscores the need to...
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A citizen science approach to obtain quantitative measurements of urban agriculture inputs and outputs in Melbourne


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
There are many advocates and critics of urban agriculture’s role in a sustainable food system but little quantitative data, potentially due the difficulties in collecting it. Urban food production is an example of a distributed system intrinsically linked to urban farmers and urban lifestyles and therefore cannot be recreated in a lab. Citizen science (CS)...
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Investigating residents' use and perceptions of informal greenspaces: a study of Stony Creek in Melbourne's west


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
As the world’s population is becoming more urbanised, there is growing recognition of greenspaces as a promising planning tool in tackling problems associated with urbanisation. An increasing body of research highlights the physiological, environmental and social benefits of urban greenspaces for urbanites. So far, however, very little attention has been paid to informal greenspaces and...
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Map mashups revisited: employing discursive planning tools for Perth's urban future


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
Digital mapping tools, and the “map mashups” they enable, may facilitate new and richer discourses about salient planning issues, particularly among stakeholders without specific expertise in geospatial technologies (Batty et al., 2010). In October 2016, the authors hosted a day-long workshop for transport and land use planning decision-makers from public agencies and private practice in...
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Why strategic planning matters: a case study approach to examining industrial land use planning and development in Melbourne


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
The Victorian economy is transitioning from an industrial economy to one based on knowledge and services. This might suggest that there is no need to plan for industrial uses. However using the measure of land consumption, industrial users across metropolitan Melbourne consume nearly 300 hectares of land per year (which is equivalent to one and...
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