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

Chaos, order and self organisation in urban subsystems: the impact of activity centre design, organisation and ownership on local economic activity

11 Dec 2015

Michael McGreevy

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

This article compares the sub-systems of the city in light of complexity theory and argues that traditional precincts are organised as complex adaptive systems, while the shopping centre and the arterial strip are not.

Conference paper

Using an urban sustainability assessment framework to support policy-making at a neighbourhood level

11 Dec 2015

Andre Brits,

Matthew Burke,

Tiebei Li

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

This paper describes an urban sustainability assessment framework first presented at SOAC 2011 and explores its use with practitioners on a real-world case study in Logan City, Queensland. The focus of the paper is on how such frameworks may be applied in Australian planning practice, using results from workshops held with Logan City practitioners in...

Conference paper

Assessing social media use by community groups using social network analysis

11 Dec 2015

Wayne Williamson,

Kristian Ruming

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

This paper explores the use of social media, specifically Twitter, by two community groups in engaging community participation in planning.

Conference paper

An exploratory analysis of Bus Rapid Transit on property values: a case study of Brisbane's South East Busway

11 Dec 2015

Min Zhang,

Yan Liu

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

Drawing on the South East Busway (SEB) in Brisbane, Queensland, a full-featured bus rapid transit (BRT) network in Australia as a case study, this paper explores the impact of BRT on residential property values and how this varies spatially.

Conference paper

Creating a centre for the centre-less city: the case of the Gold Coast

11 Dec 2015

Bayan Abdi Puya,

Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes

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

This paper examines this unusual case in order to determine how successful a newly created CBD can be and what factors are important in its planning.