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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

Justice and the compact city: Auckland’s hidden discourse


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
Susan Fainstein has called on planners to resume advocating for disadvantaged communities in their urban plans and policies to create the ‘just city.’ Such an approach would assess land-use policy against the principles of equity, diversity and democracy. However, planning systems strongly influenced by the ‘new public management’ ideology characterised by decentralisation, privatisation, and deregulation...
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Planning for disruptive transport technologies: how prepared are Australasian transport planning agencies?


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
This paper reports on new research to understand the preparedness of government planning agencies for the arrival of new technologies of automated private and public transport vehicles in Australasian cities. Already corporations are playing an increasing role in the shaping of Australian cities through their ability to mobilise capital to support large infrastructure projects and...
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Written in pencil or in ink: Private covenants and their legacies for housing and planning in Victoria


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
Through Australia’s history, private developers have introduced restrictive covenants to property titles. Typical private covenants stipulate building materials, limit dwelling numbers, and prohibit particular land uses or the sale of alcohol. Covenants, like zoning, have tended to “put the single-family, owner-occupied home at the pinnacle of uses to be protected”, and have functioned as security...
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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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