Editors Foreword
Title: State of Australian Cities Conference 2015: Refereed Proceedings
Year of publication: 2015
Editors: Paul Burton and Heather Shearer
Publisher: Urban Research Program at Griffith University on behalf of the Australian Cities Research Network
ISBN: 978-1-925455-03-8
The 2015 State of Australian Cities Conference, held in the City of Gold Coast, proved to be an intellectually stimulating and enjoyable event. In addition to excellent key note presentations and panel discussions, some leading national and local politicians and policy makers shared their views on some of the current challenges facing cities and how these might be overcome in the future.
The papers presented in these conference proceedings 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 relationship between empirical evidence and theoretical developments that are presented as part of our scholarly endeavours and policy processes is rarely clear and straightforward. Sometimes, perhaps because of the fortuitous alignment of various factors, our research has a direct and positive impact on policy. Sometimes it takes longer to be noticed and have influence and, sometimes, there is no little or no evidence of impact beyond or even with the academy. And while there are things we can do to promote the existence of our work and to present it in more accessible formats to people we believe to be influential, ultimately the appreciation and application of our work lies in the hands of others.
Collected together here are hundreds of papers that have each been reviewed and refereed by our peers and revised accordingly. While they each will have been presented briefly at the SOAC conference, they can now be read or re-read at your leisure. We hope they will stimulate further debate and discussion and form a platform for further research.
The will also join the archive of previous SOAC papers, maintained at the APO website at: http://apo.org.au/collections/soac-conferences
We would like to thank all those who attended the 2015 conference, those who prepared and presented the papers gathered here and those who reviewed and refereed them.
Professor Paul Burton and Dr Heather Shearer
Urban Research Program, Griffith University
February 2016
Economy
Emerging Approaches in Business Model Innovation Relevant to Sustainability and Low-carbon Transitions in Australian Cities
Idil Gaziulusoy and Paul Twomey
Making Places: Creativity, Craft and Manufacture in Shanghai
Xin Gu
Kathleen Hurley
Data for Local Economic Development Planning
Ian Manning
Michael McGreevy
Melbourne Docklands: it’s a class remake but it ain’t classy
Hannah Shaw
Heather Shearer
One City, Many Networks: Brisbane’s Global Position within Multiple Flows
Thomas J Sigler
Jennifer Day, Sophie Sturup, Yiqun Chen, Matthew Budahazy, Amy Wu, Lu Fan
Migrant Knowledge Workers in Global Melbourne: Where Do They Live and Where Do They Work?
Sajeda Chowdhury Tuli and Richard Hu
Matthew Zenkteler, Sebastien Darchen, Iderlina Mateo-Babiano and Anthony Halog
Environment
Exploring the Relationship Between Melbourne’s Water Metabolism and Urban Characteristics
Aristide Athanassiadis, Robert H. Crawford and Philippe Bouillard
Confirmed at Last: Green Roofs Add Invertebrate Diversity
Katherine Berthon, David Nipperess, Peter Davies and Matthew Bulbert
Chris Boulton Jason Byrne and Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes
Cooling cities with green space: a policy analysis framework
Judy Bush, Lu Aye and Dominique Hes
Simon Carter, Jennifer Day and Ole Fryd
Siqing Chen and Sun Sheng Han
Practicing sustainability: Lessons from a sustainable cohousing community
Matthew Daly
The continuing rise of transnational urban climate governance: Global Mayors Compact
Kathryn Davidson
Urban development and land contamination: incremental pressures and policy gaps
Peter J Davies, Jim Fraser and Steve George
Beach Erosion and Nourishment in Gold Coast: Perceptions, Policies and Prospects
Dr. Subas P. Dhakal, Prof. Kerry Brown and Prof. John Burgess
Household adaptation to climate change and the resilience of Australian urban areas
Carmen Elrick-Barr
Practitioner perspectives on nature conservation at the urban edge
Kathryn Eyles
Home Habitat Habitus: Design for cross-species cohabitation
Viveka Turnbull Hocking
Green Urbanism in Australia: An Evaluation of Green Building Rating Schemes
Ms Jessica L Holz and Dr Thomas J Sigler
Leila Irajifar, Tooran Alizadeh and Neil Sipe
Protected Areas – what do they face when located within a city planning for substantial growth
Adrienne F Keane and Peter J Davies
A Conceptual Framework for Assessing Green Infrastructure Sustainability Performance in Australia
Parisa Pakzad and Paul Osmond
Noosa Climate Action Plan: An Example of Collaborative Climate Governance?
Kava Piran and Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes
Visions and Scenarios of Low-Carbon and Resilient Australian Cities in 2040
Paul Twomey, Stephen McGrail, A. Idil Gaziulusoy and Chris Ryan
Water recycling Via Aquifers – ‘Hidden’ Storage and Treatment for Cities
J. Vanderzalm1, D. Page, P. Dillon, S. Toze, J. Sidhu, K. Barry, D. Gonzalez and S. Torkzaban
Governance
Tooran Alizadeh
Angela Ballard
Umberto Baresi, Karen J. Vella and Neil G. Sipe
Suzanne Barker and Jim Curtis
Public Participation as an Instrument for Incorporating Local Knowledge into Planning Processes
Tal Berman
Using an Urban Sustainability Assessment Framework to support Policy-making at a Neighbourhood level
Andre Brits, Matthew Burke and Tiebei Li
Downscaling planning’s fashions: network formation and application in the small city
Andrew Butt, Trevor Budge and Mark Bello
Nicole Cook and Rachel Hughes
Planning Reform, Interest Group Participation and Influence: the Case of New South Wales
Tingting Cui and Nicole Gurran
Understanding the Importance of Trust (and Distrust) in Auckland’s Intensification Process
Edward Dolan
Don’t ask permission: live/work
Andreanne Doyon
The Towards a Resilient Sydney project: from Collective Assessment to Strategic Frameworks
Suzanne Dunford, Christopher Lee, Brent Jacobs and Amanda Neirinckx
Rethinking Public Transport Accessibility: A Scenario for Decentralized Melbourne
Milena Duric and Dalibor Duric
Urbanising Nature: a political ecology case study of Sydney Park
Catherine Evans
The Regulation of Excellence: Design Competitions in Sydney
Robert Freestone, Gethin Davison, Richard Hu and Sarah Baker
Hayley Henderson and Melanie Lowe
Resilient cities and lost opportunities: the case of transport funding in New Zealand
Stephen Knight-Lenihan
Strategic action and Planning change: Regulatory Changes and Bushfire Resilience
Maria Kornakova, Alan March and Brendan Gleeson
Anna Leditschke, Rowena Butland and Matthew W. Rofe
Transformability of Civic Engagement in Times of Economic Crisis
Crystal Legacy
Vince Mangioni
Disaster risk reduction and urban planning: a case of uneven mainstreaming?
Alan March and Stephen Dovers
Public Involvement Online: Planning Meets Facebook© and Twitter©
Claire Downie and Nancy Marshall
Multi-functionality and the Urban-Rural Dichotomy in Australian Metropolitan Planning
Paul McFarland
Stephen McGrail, A. Idil Gaziulusoy and Paul Twomey
Defining the inevitable: micro-practices of strategic spatial planning
David Mitchell
The Exigency of Making Auckland the World’s Most Liveable City and its Detrimental Consequences
Mohsen Mohammadzadeh
Jamie Olvera-Garcia
Kane Pham
Analysis of governance for sustainability planning in the Cairns Region
Ruth Potts and Karen Vella
Impact of Monetary Costs on Citizen Appeals of Planning Decisions
Stephen Rowley and Joe Hurley
Laura Schatz
A Neo-Liberal Paradox: Australian State Funding of Major Sporting Stadiums
Glen Searle
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Land-Use Planning in the Second Machine Age
Tony Sorensen
Solomon Heights: A Zombie Subdivision?
Elizabeth Jean Taylor, David Nichols and Victoria Kolankiewicz
The Tide is High: Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Resilience at the Local Level
Elnaz Torabi, Michael Howes, and Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes
Ryan van den Nouwelant
Assessing social media use by community groups using social network analysis
Wayne Williamson and Kristian Ruming
Health
Socially Healthy Ageing: The Importance of Third Places, Soft Edges and Walkable Neighbourhoods
Sara Alidoust, Caryl Bosman and Gordon Holden
Walkable neighbourhoods, Physical activity and Wellbeing in Melbourne, Australia
Christopher L. Ambrey
Testing community resilience to the introduction of poker machines
Diana Bell and Rebecca Sirianni
Planning for Food Security in Urban Areas: A case study of the City of Charles Sturt, Adelaide
Michael Dickson, Sadasivam Karuppannan and Alpana Sivam
Making health a planning priority: how was health framed in the review of the NSW planning system?
Jennifer Kent
Melanie Lowe, Carolyn Whitzman and Billie Giles-Corti
Larissa Nicholls, Kath Phelan and Cecily Maller
Growing Food in a Residential Landscape
Ian Sinclair
Creating Environments that Support Healthy Living Using Methodologies for Deep Understandings
Susan Thompson, Gregory Paine and Emily Mitchell
Movement
From Squaresville to Triangle Town: Geometries for public transport network planning
Kristen Bell
Urban design guidelines for places with restorative values
Nigel Cartlidge, Lynne Armitage and Daniel O’Hare
Space/Time Mapping of Urban Transit: Isochrones, Car-dependency and Mode-choice in Melbourne
Kim Dovey, Ian Woodcock, Lucinda Pike, Milena Duric and Dalibor Duric
A GIS Methodology for Estimating the Transport Network Impedance to Last-Mile Delivery
Kolawole Ewedairo, Prem Chhetri and Jago Dodson
Neil Prosser, Patrick Fensham and Laura Schmahmann
Jayden Forbes-Mitchell and Iderlina Mateo-Babiano
Ageing in Place and the Decision to Move: A Longitudinal Study of Australia
Hoon Han and Jun-Hyung Kim
Drive till you Qualify: An Alternative View of Housing Affordability
Jon Kellett John Morrissey and Sadasivam Karuppannan
Abraham Leung, Matthew Burke, Jianqiang Cui and Anthony Perl
Changing patterns of active travel in Sydney? An analysis of commuter trips 2001 to 2011
Dylan Meade
Prioritising public transport policy goals in Auckland
Muhammad Imrana and Jane Pearce
Andrew MacKenzie, Milica Muminovic, Gay Williamson, Rachel Davey, Vincent Lernihan
Why do cyclists feel safer in inner Amsterdam and Copenhagen than Melbourne? A Contextual Framework
Warwick Pattinson
Incremental Intensificaiton: Transit-Oriented Re-Development of Small-Lot Corridors
Lucinda Pike, Ian Woodcock and Kim Dovey
The impacts of political changes on public transport accessibility in Melbourne, 2008-2014
Jan Scheurer and Carey Curtis
Melbourne’s public transport: performance and prospects after 15 years of ‘privatisation’
Dr John Stone, Yvonne Kirk and John Odgers
Robust Criteria for Sustainable Development: How to Lie with Transport Statistics
Mishka Talent
Innovation and transport planning: introducing urban linear ferries in Brisbane
Michael Tanko and Matthew Burke
Development of Real-time transport applications in Sydney – A hybrid model
Tim Tompson
Dong Wang and Yan Liu
The Function of Individual Factors on Travel Behaviour: Comparative Studies on Perth and Shanghai
Shaoli Wang and Carey Curtis
Laura Wynne
Min Zhang
Social
Sanaz Alian and Stephen Wood
Planning Neighbourhoods for all Ages and Abilities: A Multi-generational Perspective
Claudia Baldwin and Lisa Stafford
An Aboriginal Obligation to Country: Challenging The Status Quo
Rachael Cole-Hawthorne, David Jones and Darryl Low Choy
Envisioning Urban Futures with Children and Young People
Linda Corkery and Kate Bishop
The wicked problems of Western Sydney’s older suburbs
Sharon Fingland
Xavier Goldie
The Zombies of Sleepy Hollow: Reimagining Geelong
Fiona Gray and Matt Novacevski
Sirisena Herath
Housing Displacement in Australian Cities: A Brisbane Case-Study
Anne-Sophie Iotti, Wendy Steele, Neil Sipe and Jago Dodson
Ships, Planes and Automobiles – The Perils and Pluses of Place-making in an Outer Melbourne Suburb
Louise Johnson, Fiona Andrews and Elyse Warner
Retirement Village or the General Community? Downsizing Choices of Older Australians
Bruce Judd, Edgar Liu, Hazel Easthope and Catherine Bridge
Kiran KC
Exploring Narratives of the ‘Good Life’ in the North Australian town of Broome
David Kelly
Public Greenspaces and Crime: an Analysis of Crime Timing and Public Greenspace Amenities
Anthony Kimpton, Jonathan Corcoran and Rebecca Wickes
Yan Liu, David Wadley and Hoon Han
Exploring cultures of belonging in Darwin, Australia
Michele Lobo
Responding to change in a growing Melbourne: Community acceptance, wellbeing, and resilience
Rod McCrea, Greg Foliente, Rosemary Leonardc, and Andrea Walton
Li Meng, Julie Douglas, Andrew Allan
Penny Milton and Derlie Mateo-Babiano
Keiken Munzner and Dr. Jennifer Day
Clare Newton, Ian Gilzean, Sarah Backhouse, Tom Alves, Carolyn Whitzman and Alan Pert
Silvia Serrao-Neumann and Darryl Low Choy
Policy, planning and financing options for affordable housing in Melbourne
Alexander Sheko, Andrew Martel and Andrew Spencer
Sian Thompson, Hazel Easthope and Gethin Davison
Countering Terrorism in the City
Douglas Tomkin
Planning the end of the compact city?
Laurence Troy, Bill Randolph, Simon Pinnegar, Hazel Easthope
Physical Determinism and Australian Cities
Patrick Troy
Seniors’ Playgrounds May Never Get Old
Jessica Volkanovski and Nancy Marshall
Partnerships for Affordable Housing: Lessons from Melbourne, Portland, Vancouver and Toronto
Professor Carolyn Whitzman,
Regional Innovation and Public Wi-fi
Chris K Wilson, Ian McShane and Denise Meredyth
Structure
Practising architecture in Global Sydney: Re-theorising the Architecture of the Global City
Elizabeth Adamczyk
Creating a Centre for the Centre-less City: The Case of the Gold Coast
Bayan Abdi Puya and Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes
Modelling Behavioural Responsiveness in City Structuring
Sharon Biermann, Chris Pettit and Andre Brits
Alternative futures for Melbourne’s peri-urban regions
Michael Buxton
Chucking in, Cleaning up and Making Better: The Contested Meaning of Social Housing Renewal
Lynda Cheshire
Image Analysis of Urban Design Representation Towards Alternatives
Robyn Creagh
Planning the Unplanned City: The Story of the Gold Coast
Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes and Severine Mayere
Good design- A case for adopting a user centred approach to medium density housing
Melinda Dodson, Andrew MacKenzie
Anthony Duckworth-Smith and Courtney Babb
Density through amalgamation? Battling the sticky cadastre
Craig Fredrickson
Urban or suburban? Examining the density of Australian cities in a global context
Andrew Spencer, Jeremy Gill and Laura Schmahmann
Interdisciplinary Tools to Enable Middle Suburb Regeneration
Stephen Glackin, Roman Trubka, Rita Dionisio, Peter Newman, Peter Newton, Simon Kingham
Catherine Gilbert, Nicole Gurran, Steven Rowley, Amity James and Peter Phibbs
Exploring infrastructure provision issues in greenfield and urban infill residential developments
Cathryn Hamilton and Jon Kellett
What can house prices tell us about the effects of the globalisation of trade on Australian cities?
Warwick Jones
Precinct Regeneration of Dispersed Public Housing in Middle Suburbs
Nigel Bertram, Shane Murray, Lee-Anne Khor, Byron Meyer, Deborah Rowe, Catherine Murphy, Peter Newton, Stephen Glackin, Tom Alves and Rob McGauran
Urban Consolidation in Melbourne: a Case Study of the Monash Employment Cluster
Dejan Malenic and Sun Sheng Han
Urban Design: An Underutilized Tool for Disaster Risk Reduction?
Alan March, Jorge León
Regenerating the Suburbs: A model for Compact, Resilient Cities
Caitlin McGee
Nigel Bertram, Catherine Murphy, Byron Meyer and Deborah Rowe
Flood Mitigation With and Without ‘Planning': The Roles of Ideas, Interests and Institutions
John Minnery
The Shanghai Model for Activity Centres and its Potential in the Australian Context
Andrew Monaghan, Matthew Burke and Professor Pan Haixiao
Trivess Moore, Tome Alves, Ralph Horne and Andrew Martel
Miza Moreau
Strategic land use capacity in in Melbourne
Kath Phelan
Human Dimensions of Residential Sector Energy Consumption
Lavinia Poruschi and Christopher L. Ambrey
Defining the density debate in Brisbane: how urban consolidation is represented in the media
Katrina Raynor and Tony Matthews and Severine Mayere
Housing Design Innovations Delivered Under the National Social Housing Initiative
Shane Murray, Nigel Bertram, Lee-Anne Khor, Byron Meyer, Deborah Rowe, Catherine Murphy, Peter Newton, Stephen Glackin, Tom Alves and Rob McGauran
A Temporary City: Temporary Use as a Tool for Urban Design in the Creation of Convivial Urban Space
Hannah Shaw
The Cyborg City: Re-thinking Urban Resilience Through Mobile Communications
Wendy Steele, Ian McShane, Crystal Legacy, Yolande Strengers, John Handmer and Sarah Pink
An Exploratory Analysis of Brisbane’s Commuter Travel Patterns Using Smart Card Data
Ming Wei, Yan Liu, Thomas J Sigler
Infill Development and the Distribution of Open Space in Melbourne
Jennifer Witheridge
Urban Dimensions of Creative Clustering: Mix/Adaptation/Networks/Ambivalence
Stephen Wood, Kim Dovey and Lucinda Pike