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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

A multi-level perspective on strategic transport planning towards low carbon development in Adelaide: Insight from Freiburg im Breisgau


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
In the light of growing trends in global carbon emissions, and the resultant impacts of climate change, it has become imperative for cities to reframe their development patterns and policies to facilitate a transition towards carbon neutrality. The 30-Year Plan of Greater Adelaide attempts to review and identify new ways of shaping the city’s development...
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Being ‘in-there’ not ‘out-there’: urban planning and Aboriginal peoples


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
An Australian myth is that Aboriginals reside only in the far reaches of Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia. Such is far from the truth. 2016 Australian Bureau of Statistics census data evidences an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population of approximately 649,171, or 2.8% of Australia’s total population, and projects that this population will...
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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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Planning for growth management and environmental change: modelling options for the future of the City of Hobsons Bay, Melbourne


8th State of Australian Cities National Conference, 28-30 November 2017, Adelaide, Australia
In an era where increasingly urban planning is required to envisage and model development and growth scenarios, there is a dearth of creative, flexible, timely and three-dimensional electronic tools that allow the planners to both model and visualize their scenarios without wading through extensive computer software.
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