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Conference

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

Evaluating design quality assessment of apartments for policy and practice


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
The importance of apartment living in creating sustainable cities has gained wide recognition as many Australian cities are beginning to grapple with rising populations. Concurrent with this shift in prioritisation, high density housing in Melbourne has experienced increasing pressures in terms of affordability and financialisation. Many practitioners, policy makers and members of the public have...
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Tenure as barrier to low carbon living


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
In the global push to lowering our carbon emissions by transitioning to renewable energy production and improving energy efficiency epitomised in the Paris Agreement in 2015, the importance of housing tenure to the adoption of low carbon living, particularly for those on lower incomes, is often not fully appreciated. Lower-income households are more likely to...
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Dormancy in two regional cities and its relevance to the growth of Sydney


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
The dormant cityscape continues to haunt many of our burgeoning, high growth cities. Former port lands, ‘brownfield’ sites and degraded suburban areas persist in these states for what appears to be decades without any apparent revival. Despite the usual forms of planning, zoning and controls they appear to display obstinacy over large time periods that...
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Walking for recreation: an innovative method for creating a GIS-based walkability surface on the Gold Coast, Australia


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
Encouraging greater levels of physical activity is a key policy focus in many urban areas, given the link between this and improved physical and mental health outcomes. The majority of previous studies on walkability however, have focussed on walking for transport; and generally consisted of creating desktop based walkability indices using variables such as residential...
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Validating mobile phone generated bicycle route data in support of active transportation


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
As our cities continue to growth in an era of urbanization there is a need to harness the power of big data to support data driven planning. Yet we need to ensure this data in credible and reliable, particularly when obtained from smart phone apps through crowdsourced approaches. The goal of this paper is to...
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