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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

The crucial role of private domestic gardens in achieving sustainable cities: a model linking the person, Maslow’s Hierarchy and Millennium Ecosystem Assessment to sustainably meeting ecological and human needs


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
Over the past few decades, the act of engaging people in achieving sustainable cities has focused upon changing environmental values, predominantly through social networks and, increasingly, social practices. Despite increasingly higher levels of environmental awareness within the community, and reasonably consistent levels of community involvement in voluntary activities, there has been little improvement in the...
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Distributions of end-use water consumption among households


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
Estimating the distribution of domestic water consumption among households is important for establishing baselines against which policy success can be measured. Estimates of this kind are typically produced using household surveys. This study aimed to investigate how simple heuristic estimates of water consumption and surveys compare with measures of water consumption obtained from meter readings...
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Motivations and constraints of smart work in the public sector: evidence from the Australian Capital Territory government


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
This study investigates attitudes towards smart work arrangements and examines the motivations and constraints in the public sector. It is based on a survey that received 300 responses across Departments in the Australian Capital Territory Government. The study indicated a high demand for smart work arrangements with identified motivational factors being: work life balance, increased...
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Using Photovoice to research the experiences of parents raising children in new, inner-city, higher density housing developments


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
Traditionally, parents have moved to low density, middle and outer suburbs of Australian cities to raise their children. However census data shows that between 2001 and 2011, the number of families raising children in inner-city, higher density, suburbs has increased. Many of these suburbs are undergoing rapid transformation through in-fill development of apartments, often not...
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Public wi-fi in Australian cities: are there lessons for ‘smart city’ government?


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
Wireless communication is now integral to the social, economic and cultural life of cities and will become increasingly so as Internet of Things (IOT) technologies alter existing urban processes and generate entirely new ones. Although wireless connectivity engages almost all aspects of urban governance, management of the underpinning infrastructure is essentially a new field of...
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