Conference

7th State of Australian Cities Conference, 9-11 December 2015, Gold Coast, Australia

Owning Institution

The State of Australian Cities (SOAC) national conferences have been held biennially since 2003 to support interdisciplinary policy-related urban research. SOAC 7 was held in the City of Gold Coast and hosted by Griffith University.

The 164 peer reviewed papers were organised into seven broad themes but all shared, to varying degrees, a common focus on the ways in which high quality academic research can be used in the development and implementation of policy. The conference featured leading national and local politicians and policy makers who shared their views on some of the current challenges facing cities and how these might be overcome in the future.

Papers from all past and subsequent SOAC conferences can be found at the State of Australian Cities Conferences Collection on APO.

Conference paper

Protected areas - what do they face when located within a city planning for substantial growth

11 Dec 2015

Adrienne Keane,

Peter Davies

7th State of Australian Cities Conference, 9-11 December 2015, Gold Coast, Australia

This paper will, through a case study of four national parks in the growing city of Sydney, Australia, and, using content analysis, explore how statutory planning instruments, planning policies, plans of management and applicable legislation affect ongoing conservation values for national parks and reserves.

Conference paper

Governance and regional planning outcomes: using governance indicators to support a policy implementation approach

11 Dec 2015

Jamie Olvera-Garcia

7th State of Australian Cities Conference, 9-11 December 2015, Gold Coast, Australia

In order to better analyse the impact of governance, this paper proposes a set of governance indicators to examine decisions across regional planning institutions and apply this to governance models across Queensland’s regions.

Conference paper

Why do cyclists feel safer in inner Amsterdam and Copenhagen than Melbourne? A contextual framework

11 Dec 2015

Warwick Pattinson

7th State of Australian Cities Conference, 9-11 December 2015, Gold Coast, Australia

This paper seeks to quantify comparisons of cycling safety outcomes between similar city areas and provides framework for exploring changes to the context in which adults make travel choices.

Conference paper

Planning for resilient coastal settlements through bottom-up approaches: lessons from Shoalhaven, NSW, Australia

11 Dec 2015

Silvia Serrao-Neumann,

Darryl Low Choy

7th State of Australian Cities Conference, 9-11 December 2015, Gold Coast, Australia

This paper investigates how opportunities for improving resilience and adaptation to natural hazards can be optimised through bottom-up collaborative planning approaches by focusing on the coastal local government area of Shoalhaven.

Conference paper

A methodology for exploring relationships among physical features of residential back-laneways and their uses

11 Dec 2015

Miza Moreau

7th State of Australian Cities Conference, 9-11 December 2015, Gold Coast, Australia

This paper proposes a methodology to study the relationship between uses and the built environment of laneways through six features: laneway width, length, physical permeability, visibility from streets, the density of residences and their interfaces with laneways.