Editors Foreword
Title: State of Australian Cities Conference 2013: Refereed Proceedings
Year of publication: 2013
Editors: Kristian Ruming, Bill Randolph and Nicole Gurran
Publisher: State of Australian Cities Research Network
ISBN: 1 74044 033 1
Editors’ Foreword
Ten years since the original State of Australian Cities (SOAC) conference, SOAC 2013 was the largest conference to date, with over 180 papers published as part of these proceedings. All papers presented at the SOAC 2013 and subsequently published as part of the proceedings have been subject to a double blind refereeing process. All papers have been reviewed by at least two referees. In particular, the review process assessed each paper in terms of its policy relevance and the contribution to the conceptual or empirical understanding of Australian cities. The review process ensured the highest academic standards. The Editors wish to thank referees and contributors for their efforts in responding to tight publication timelines. The breadth and quality of papers included as part of these proceedings is testament to the strength of Australian urban studies.
Kristian Ruming, Bill Randolph and Nicole Gurran
Sydney
19 December 2013
Economy
Sufficiency of Employment Self-Sufficiency Targets in Reducing the Need to Travel – Presentation
Sharon Biermann and Kirsten Martinus
Growth of the Creative Economy in Small Regional Cities: A case study of Bendigo - Presentation
Andrew Bishop and Sun Sheng Han
Selling Newcastle to the World, or to Newcastle? A case study of the official and unofficial rebranding of Newcastle, NSW
Laura Crommelin
The Role for the UPE Project in Australia
Kathryn Davidson
Canberra 2013 Planning and Urban Development Challenges at the Centenary of the National Capital
Karl Fischer and James Weirick
Airports as Development Generators: A reconnaissance of employment trends in the Sydney airport region 1996–2011 – Presentation
Robert Freestone and Andrew Tice
A City that Makes Things: Reconstituting manufacturing
Chris Gibson and Andrew Warren
The Devil is in the Detail: What’s behind manufacturing growth and decline in Melbourne, 2001–2011 – Presentation
Anthony Kent and Kathleen Hurley
Sydney’s Housing Markets During the GFC: How was globalisation mediated? – Presentation
Heather MacDonald
What Impact does Workplace Accessibility Have on Housing Prices? Sydney 2006 – 2011 – Presentation
Heather MacDonald, Alan Peters, Natalya de Pooter, and Ji Yuan Yu
Property Tax Reform A contribution to housing affordability and challenges for government in Australia
Vince Mangioni
Accelerating Regional City Growth in Victoria: Evidence and policy approaches – Presentation
Chris McDonald, Shishir Saxena and Vinnie Maharaj
Intra-metropolitan Housing Supply Elasticity in Australia: A spatial analysis of Adelaide – Presentation
Ralph B. McLaughlin, Anthony Sorensen and Sonya Glavac
Road Costs Associated with Differing Forms of Urban Development
Martin Nichols
Adjustment to Retrenchment – A case of challenging the global economy in the suburbs? – Presentation
Johannes Pieters
The Urban Boundary: An economic activity perspective of South-East Queensland – Presentation
Lavinia Poruschi
Why has Melbourne Closed the Gap on Sydney Since 2000?
Glen Searle and Kevin O’Connor
Waves of Suburban Economic Development: Outer Western Sydney’s next ride – Presentation
Samantha Sharpe and Dustin Moore
Corporate Clustering in Australian Cities: An analysis of the geographic distribution of ASX-listed headquarters
Thomas Sigler
Master Planned Estates, Living Experience, and the Experience Economy – Presentation
Paul Smith
An Open-Source Tool for Identifying Industrial Clusters in a Data-Poor Environment
Sophie Sturup, Jennifer Day and Yiqun Chen
Tipped Off: Residential amenity and the changing distribution of household waste disposal in Melbourne - Presentation
Elizabeth Taylor
Liveable Housing Design: Who will take responsibility? – Presentation
Margaret Ward, Jill Franz and Barbara Adkins
An Analysis of Commuting Patterns in Sydney, 2006–2011, Using Spatial Interaction Models
Martin Watts
Social
Consolidation Policy and its Effects on the City
Patrick Troy AO
A tale of two cities – patterns of population growth and change in Sydney and Melbourne – Presentation
Simone Alexander
A Good Place to Raise a Family? Comparing parents’, service providers, and media perspectives of the inner and outer suburban areas of Melbourne
Fiona Andrews, Sarah Barter-Godfrey, Stephanie Rich, Ruth Klein & Julia Shelley
Acknowledging the Health Effects of Poor Quality Housing: Australia’s hidden fraction
Emma Baker, Laurence Lester, Andrew Beer, Kate Mason and Rebecca Bentley
How Common – Sex, malls,and urban parks
Spike Boydell
“We are a Family – It makes sense to live together”: Multigenerational households in Sydney and Brisbane – Presentation
Hazel Easthope, Edgar Liu, Ian Burnley & Bruce Judd
If I Come Back in a Few Years and Nothing has Changed, I’ll be MAD!: Lessons in co-planning with children from the CATCH/iMATCH Citizen Kid’s Planning Group - Presentation
Andrea Cook, Carolyn Whitzman and Paul Tranter
Can I Touch This?
Melissa David and Mellini Sloan
How and Why does Community Opposition to Affordable Housing Development Escalate? ”Unsupported development” in Parramatta, NSW
Gethin Davison , Crystal Legacy, Edgar Liu, Ryan van den Nouwelant and Awais Piracha
Measuring Social Interaction and Community Cohesion in a High Density Urban Renewal Area: The case of Green Square – Presentation
Hazel Easthope and Nicole McNamara
The Role of Fun in City Centre Revitalisation Projects: Children and fountains
Claire Freeman
The Loss of Low Cost Coastal Holiday Accommodation – Causes, cases and consequences - Presentation
Helen Gilbert
Promoting Positive Aging: University campuses as a model – Presentation
Tracie Harvison
Measuring the Changing Face of Global Sydney – Presentation
Richard Hu
Digital Suburbs? Some policy implications of greater domestic connectivity
Louise Johnson
Understanding Downsizing in Later Life and its Implications for Housing and Urban Policy – Presentation
Bruce Judd, Edgar Liu, Hazel Easthope and Catherine Bridge
The Wander Years: Estate renewal, temporary relocation and place(lessness) in Bonnyrigg, NSW – Presentation
Edgar Liu
Darwin After Dark: Illuminating suburban atmospheres
Michele Lobo
Integrated Planning for Healthy Communities: Does Victorian state legislation promote it?
Melanie Lowe, Carolyn Whitzman and Billie Giles-Corti
Getting to Yes: Overcoming barriers to affordable family friendly housing in inner Melbourne – Presentation
Martel, A., Whitzman, C., Fincher, R., Lawther, P., Woodcock, I. and Tucker, D
Ethical & Political Consumption and Opportunities for Change in Australian Shopping Centre Design
Kirsty Mate
Vertical Mixed Use Communitie:A compact city model?
Iderlina Mateo-Babiano and Sébastien Darchen
Pedagogy of Oppressed Community Engagement: Socially inclusive visioning of sustainable urban regeneration – Presentation
Helen Meikle and David Jones
Planning for Organized Sport in the Fringe Suburbs of Australia Cities: A case study of Perth – Presentation
Garry Middle, Marian Tye, Diane Costello, Dave Hedgcock and Isaac Middle
The Yard goes on Forever: Community initiatives in maintaining and revitalizing local open space
David Nichols and Robert Freestone
New Housing Development at Hobsonville: Promoting and buying into a “natural” community – Presentation
Simon Opit and Robin Kearns
Developing a Typology of Socio-spatial Disadvantage in Australia – Presentation
Hal Pawson and Shanaka Herath
Negotiating the Complexities of Redevelopment Through the Everyday Experiences of Residents: The incremental renewal of Bonnyrigg, Sydney – Presentation
Simon Pinnegar
Sustainable Housing in Aged Care Facilities – Presentation
Kate Ringvall and Julie Brunner
Perceptions of Place – Evaluating experiential qualities of streetscapes
John Rollo and Suzanne Barker
Predictors of Overall Living Satisfaction in Medium Density Housing: Results from a household survey – Presentation
Jeeva Sajan
Feeding the City – Food production on the fringe and within the urban area
Ian Sinclair
Can the Universal Concept of Community Policing be Applied in Different Jurisdictions?’ A cross comparative analysis of policing in Sydney, Bosnia and New York
Kenan Smajovic and Awais Piracha
Planning and Building Healthy Communities - Presentation
Susan Thompson, Emily Mitchell and Belinda Crawford
Who Lives in Retirement Villages; Are they wealthy enclaves, ghettos or connected communities?
Lois Towart
The Food Security of the Australian Capital Region
Rachael Wakefield-Rann and Robert Dybal
Rethinking Accessibility in Planning of Urban Open Space. Using an Integrative Theoretical Framework
Dong Wang, Iderlina Mateo-Babiano and Gregory Brown
Can Outer Suburbs Become 20 Minute Cities? – Presentation
Carolyn Whitzman, Danita Tucker, Andrew Bishop, Andreanne Doyon, Cait Jones, Tamara Lowen and Elissa McMillan
Housing Affordability for Key Workers Employed in the City of Melbourne
Gareth Williams and Bethanie Finney
Producing Multicultural Belonging: The possibilities and discontents of local public spaces in suburban Sydney
Rebecca Williamson
Children’s Accounts of Confronting City Street Life: Can the inner city be truly child-friendly?
Karen Witten, Robin Kearns and Penelope Carroll
The role of streets within placemaking in cross-cultural contexts: case studies from Adelaide and Georgetown, Malaysia
Alpana Sivam and Sadasivam Karuppannan
Renewing Tonsley, Regenerating Adelaide – The making of Australia’s most competitive city
Megan Antcliff and Ingo Kumic
Environmental
Creating a Liveable City – The role of ecosystem services – Presentation
Phillip James Birtles, Jenna Hore, Michael Dean, Rebecca Hamilton, John Dahlenburg, Jo Ann Moore and Michele Bailey
Rooted: Planning and food security in Australian cities – Presentation
Paul Burton
Sustainability Through Community: Social capital in the inner urban eco-community – Presentation
Liam Cooper
Media Representations of Nature in the City
Kathryn Eyles
Climate change vulnerability and adaptation: voices from the community services sector in Victoria – Presentation
Hartmut Fϋnfgeld, Alianne Rance, Philip Wallis, Sophie Millin, Karyn Bosomworth and Kate Lonsdale
Six Million in Melbourne or a Network of Sustainable Midi-Cities? – A thought experiment
R.J. Fuller and L. Trygg
Green Resources in an Urbanising Sea Change Landscape – Presentation
Renee Fulton
Comparing Food Efficient Design and Planning of Built Environments in Sydney and Miami – Presentation
Sumita Ghosh
Development and Trial of an Automated, Open Source Walkability Tool Through AURIN’s Open Source Portal – Presentation
Billie Giles-Corti, Gus Macaulay, Nick Middleton, Bryan Boruff, Carolyn Whitzman, Fiona Bull, Iain Butterworth,Hannah Badland,Suzanne Mavoa,Rebecca Roberts and Hayley Christian
A New Way of Living with Nature? Zones of friction and traction in Nangari Vineyard Estate, South West Sydney
Charles Gillon
Comparing Local Government Adaptation Responses to Climate Change in Australia and Sweden – Presentation
Leigh Glover and Mikael Granberg
Slip Sliding Away: Auckland’s response to the political erosion of climate change mitigation initiatives
Julia Harker, Patricia Austin, Megan Howell, Stephen-Knight Lenihan and Prue Taylor
The Wicked Muse: Partnering creative practice, local communities and sustainability – Presentation
Viveka Hocking
The Paradox of Paradise: Declining government responses to the increasing risks of climate change for the Gold Coast – Presentation
Michael Howes and Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes
Beyond Birdies – Enhancing biodiversity on urban golf courses – Presentation
Brent Jacobs, Louise Boronyak, Nicholas Mikhailovich, Jeanie Muspratt
The Power to Save: An equity analysis of the Victorian Energy Saver Incentive in Melbourne – Presentation
Victoria Johnson and Damian Sullivan
Decision Making in the Face of the Rising Tide – Presentation
Kellett J, Balston J, Li S, Wells G and Western M
Finding Appropriate Participation in Urban Planning for Reduction of Disaster Risks
Maria Kornakova and Alan March
Mapping CO2 Emission from Commuting in Regional Australia
Simone Leao and Alan March
‘Towards a Resilient Sydney’ – Climate change adaptation planning for Sydney – Presentation
Christopher Lee, Norma Shankie-Williams and David Mitchell
Urban Structure and Evacuation Times in a City Fringe Bushfire: Modelling three scenarios in Bendigo, Victoria
Jorge Leon and Alan March
Towards a Greater Understanding of Healthy Food Accessibility in Melbourne: Part II
Margalit Levin and Yiqun Chen
Urban Planning for Disaster Risk Reduction: Establishing second wave criteria
Alan March and Jorge Leon
Doing Adaptation Differently? Does Neoliberalism Influence adaptation planning in Queensland – Presentation
Lachlan McClure and Douglas Baker
A Tale of Two Cities: Sydney and Melbourne’s growth strategies and the flawed city-centric approach
Paul McFarland
Sustainability, Vulnerability, Resilience and Change: The efficacy of comparative urban metrics for city development in Australia – Presentation
Phil McManus
Low Carbon Urban Transitions: A Melbourne case study – Presentation
Susie Moloney and Ralph Horne
The Importance of House Size in the Pursuit of Low Carbon Housing – Presentation
Trivess Moore, Stephen Clune and John Morrissey
Industry Constructions of Waste in Building Life-Cycles: Zero waste and beyond? – Presentation
Jasmine Palmer, Lou Wilson, Stephen Pullen, Keri Chiveralls, Jian Zou and George Zillante
Uniting Urban Agriculture and Stormwater Management: The example of the ‘vegetable raingarden’
Paul Richards
You Can Kiss my Yasi – Recovering in time compression
Serrao-Neumann, S., Crick, F. and Low Choy, D
Changing Water Values in Urban Waterway Naturalisation: Findings from a Sydney case study – Presentation
Jacqueline Soars and Fiona Miller
Integrated ETWW Demand Forecasting and Scenario Planning for Precincts (ETWW: energy, transport, waste and water) – Presentation
Michael Taylor
A Review of International Low Carbon Precincts to Identify Pathways for Mainstreaming Sustainable Urbanism in Australia
Thomson G, Matan A and Newman P
Ecosystem Guidelines for the Conservation of Aquatic Ecosystems of the Georges River Catchment: A method applicable to the Sydney Basin – Presentation
Carl Tippler, Ian. Wright, Peter Davies and Alison Hanlon
Visions and Pathways for Low-to Zero Carbon Urban Living – Australia 2050
Paul Twomey and Chris Ryan
Low Carbon Residential Refurbishments in Australia: Progress and prospects – Presentation
Nicola Willand and Ralph Horne
Carbon Mitigation Actions by Peri-urban and Regional Cities in Queensland – Presentation
Heather Zeppel
Assessing Household Energy Consumption in Adelaide and Melbourne
Sadasivam Karuppannan and Sun Sheng Han
Structure
Urban Form and Design Outcomes of Heritage Planning Policies in Inner Melbourne – Presentation
Robyn Clinch
City Without a Plan: How the Gold Coast was shaped
Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes
Re-assembling the Car-dependent City: Transit – oriented intensification in Melbourne
Kim Dovey, Ian Woodcock, Shane Murray and Lee-Ann Khor
Activity Corridor Intensification in Perth and the role of Design Based Research
Anthony Duckworth-Smith
Working with Housing Variance to Model Urban Growth Futures within Inner Metropolitan Melbourne – Presentation
Yolanda Esteban and John Rollo
GDP and City Population in the Development Performance of City Structures – Presentation
Michelle Leong Glastris
Shaping Modern Cities: Structural continuity and change in Carlton, Melbourne 1870-1970 – Presentation
Lucy Groenhart, Gavin Wood and Joe Hurley
Don’t be so Dense: Measuring urban structure and form – Presentation
Michael Grosvenor
Future Intensive: Obstacles and opportunities to achieving compact urban form in Auckland
Errol Haarhoff, Lee Beattie, Jenny Dixon, Ann Dupuis, Penny Lysnar and Laurence Murphy
Connecting Transit with Urban Development to Achieve 21st Century Goals for Perth
Cole Hendrigan
From Disparate Association to Planning Doxa
Jean Hillier
The sustainable design of Water’s Edge Public Spaces in the Asia Pacific region: smaller scale Australian examples and case studies in Sydney, Hong Kong and Singapore
Mabel John, Steffen Lehmann and Alpana Sivam
Reinventing Jillong: Current regeneration initiatives challenging the identity and place of Geelong – Presentation
David Jones and Helen Meikle
Planning Community Infrastructure in a Fast Changing Urban Environment: Measuring the social outcomes
Kate Kerkin
New Urban Territories: Spatial assemblies for the 20-minute city
Lee-Anne Khor, Shane Murray, Kim Dovey, Ian Woodcock, Rutger Pasman
Nothing Gained by Only Counting Dwellings per Hectare: A hundred years of confusing urban densities
Elek Pafka
Infill Design Opportunities
Lee-Anne Khor, Byron Meyer, Nigel Bertram, Shane Murray and Diego Ramirez-Lovering
From Hope to Productivity: The funding crisis in the NSW heritage sector – Presentation
Paul Rappoport and Robert Freestone
Street Network Analysis for Understanding Typology in Cities: Case study on Sydney CBD and suburbs
Somwrita Sarkar
Teleworking and Spatial Trends in Australian Cities: A critical review of current literature – Presentation
Abbas Shieh and Glen Searle
Modelling as Alchemy? Reflections from a PSS developer on the politics of land use models – Presentation
Regan Solomon
Public Use Zone: A new paradigm for suburban rail station design for Australian cities
Simon Wollan and Ian Woodcock
Coding for Corridors: Prospects for tram corridor intensification in Melbourne
Ian Woodcock, Kim Dovey, Lucinda Pike, Elek Pafka, Shane Murray, Lee-Anne Khor, Rutger Pasman and Tom Morgan
Governance
‘We Don’t Have Access to That’: Social mix and the right to the city – Presentation
Kathy Arthurson, Iris Levin and Anna Ziersch
Housing Affordability in Auckland: Looking behind the rhetoric – Presentation
Patricia Austin
Advancing Community Engagement Practice for Strategic Urban Planning: Learning from allied and remote disciplines – Presentation
Suzanne Barker
Arbitrating Relatively Good Design: The aesthetic governance of Australia’s cities
Chris Beer
Embedding Urban Growth Modelling in Planning Practice – Presentation
Andre Brits
Melbourne’s North and West Metropolitan Regional Management Forum: Building community capacity through the Regional Health and Wellbeing Implementation Strategy - Presentation
Iain Butterworth
Examining Three Planning Pathways in the Mediation of Resident Opposition to Compact City – Presentation
Nicole Cook, Joe Hurley and Elizabeth Taylor
The Ethical Dilemmas of Local Government Planners in Western Australia.
Tim Perkins and Julie Crews
The Dynamic of Climate Change Policy in a Multi-level Governance Environment.
Anne Dansey
Streamlining the Planning Process and Supporting Local Identity and Character – Can the two exist? – Presentation
Peter Davies and Neil Selmon
System and Strategy: Recent trends in governance and planning systems in Australia – Presentation
Michael Buxton, Lucy Groenhart
Certainty and Outcomes: Some local planning illusions – Presentation
David Fingland
Governance of Public Land Acquisition for Regional Open Space in Perth and Sydney
Neil Foley, Peter Williams
Finding Solutions to the Commonwealth’s Regulation Gap
Laura Goh
Simpler, Faster, Cheaper? Australia’s urban aspirations and the planning reform agendas – Presentation
Robin Goodman, Paul Maginn, Nicole Gurran and Kristian Ruming
Climate Justice in the Australian City
Jean Hillier, Diana MacCallum, Wendy Steele, Donna Houston and Jason Byrne
Governance in Local Government University Partnerships: Smart, local and connected? – Presentation
Richard Howitt
Spinning the Wheel: Examining decision making process and outcomes in development assessment
Brendan McRae and Joe Hurley
I Think Planning is About Chipping Away at Stuff: The voices and activities of public service planners working in Melbourne – Presentation
John Jackson
Understanding the Role and Expectations of Local Government Planners in the Contemporary Political Environment: A South Australian perspective
Anna Leditschke, Rowena Butland and Matthew W. Rofe
Democratic Infrastructure? Delivering affordable housing under Australia’s social housing initiative – Presentation
Crystal Legacy, Gethin Davison, Edgar Liu, Ryan van den Nouwelant, Awais Piracha
Developing Effective Urban Open Space Policies Using Excludability, Rivalry and Devolved Governance
Andrew MacKenzie, Leonie J. Pearson and Craig J Pearson
Governing Carbon in the Australian City: Local government responses – Presentation
Pauline McGuirk, Robyn Dowling and Harriet Bulkeley
Cornerstone or Rhinestone: The fate of strategic planning in the post-political age
David Mitchell
Community Relations and Community Governance around Condominium Living: Towards a collaborative approach to condominium law reform and urban vitality
Clare Mouat, Rebecca Leshinsky
Governance Performance in Multi-Scalar Large Institutional Networks: Evaluating transport institutions in Australia’s metropolises
Michael Neuman, Nicholas Low, Carey Curtis, Michael Taylor, Glen Searle
Empowering the Professional Judgement of Planners: A study of Australian discretion in international comparison
Marsita Omar and Alan March
Comparative Policy Analysis in Australian Water and Electricity Demand Management – Presentation
Walter Reinhardt
Higher Density Development in Sydney: Public perception and policy awareness – Presentation
Kristian Ruming
Public Housing Estate Redevelopments in Australian Inner Cities and the Meanings of Social Mix
Kate Shaw
Contested Decision Making in Commemorative Planning and Regulation
Quentin Stevens, Karen Franck and SueAnne Ware
Plan Melbourne: A Critique and a Review of Its Implications for Housing
Richard Tomlinson
Web Based Communication and Online Social Networking in the NSW Planning System 2 – Presentation
Wayne Williamson
Movement
Towards the Socioeconomic Patterns of the National Broadband Network Rollout in Australia
Tooran Alizadeh
The Role of Adelaide’s Transit Oriented Developments Towards Creating a Low Carbon Transit Future City
Andrew Allan
Access, Health and Independence: Walkability and children’s quality of life – Presentation
Courtney Babb and Carey Curtis
Are Master-planned New Urbanist Suburbs a ‘Solution’ for Sustainable Travel to Schools? Comparing children’s travel in select Australian primary schools
Matthew Burke, Carey Curtis, Carolyn Whitzman, Paul Tranter, Christine Armit and Mitch Duncan
Lifting the Barriers: Planning for increased mobility and accessibility through the Adelaide CBD – Presentation
Rowena Butland and Madeleine Rains
The Challenges of Planning for Autonomous Mobility in Australia
Robyn Dowling and Jennifer Kent
Transitions to Independent Mobility Among Children and Young People – Presentation
Anne Hurni
Journey to Work Patterns in Regional Victoria - Presentation
Erwin Lagura and Christina Inbakaran
Private Car Use as Resistance to Alternative Transport: Automobility’s interminable appeal – Presentation
Jennifer Kent
Using Multi-modal Travel and Cost Analysis to Re-evaluate Transport Disadvantage for the Brisbane Metropolitan Area
Tiebei Li, Jago Dodson, Neil Sipe
Active Transport – Comparative analysis Melbourne - Presentation
David Mckenzie and Christina Inbakaran
Understanding Australian Parents’ Attitudes About their Children’s Travel Behaviour: Results from the CATCH and iMATCH projects
Farinaz Moghtaderi, Matthew Burke, Paul Tranter and Christine Armit
Critical Infrastructure in Australia
Jaime Olvera-Garcia, Wendy Steele,Emma Browne and Anne-Sophie Iotti
City Cycling at the Crossroads Can Australia learn from Northern Europe? – Presentation
Warwick Pattinson abd Carolyn Whitzman
Smarter Ways to Change: Learning from innovative practice in road space reallocation – Presentation
Helen Rowe
Improving Accessibility in Growing Australian Cities – Presentation
Jan Scheurer, Kristien Bell
The Impact of Shopping Centre Attributes on the Destination Preferences of Trip Makers in Brisbane
Maryam Shobeirinejad, Tim Veitech, Neil Sipe and Matthew Burke
Beyond Economicism: Challenging the concept of the Australian global city
Wendy Steele and Michele Acuto
Children’s Cycling for Transport in Selected Australian Urban Environments: Model shares and determinations of significance
Kala Wati, Matthew Burke, Neil Sipe and Jago Dodson
Effects of Raising Fuel Price on Reduction of Household Trouble GHG Emissions: A case study of Sydney
Junjian Zhao, Alan Peters and Peter Rickwood