Diversity in the city: What are our limits?

Adelaide Festival of Ideas session, Art Gallery Auditorium, 10:00 am, Friday 10th July, 2009. Chaired by Andrew Beer.http://www.adelaidefestivalofideas.com.a

Immigrant women in manufacturing work

A substantial literature documents the difficult circumstances of immigrant women from non-English speaking backgrounds in urban Australia. This group has had considerable research attention since the 1970s, as Alcorso (1989) notes in her excellent review, resulting in distinct bodies of enquiry about immigrants in general and also about immigrant women. Our paper diverges somewhat from the starting point of most of this literature and considers the circumstances of immigrant women by explicitly comparing them with those of immigrant men

Seeing Cities and Their Planning with Diversity in Mind

The State of Australian Cities (SOAC) national conferences have been held biennially since 2003 to support interdisciplinary policy-related urban research. This paper was presented at SOAC 3 held in Adelaide from 28 to 30 November 2007. SOAC 3 was jointly hosted by the University of South Australia, the University of Adelaide and Flinders University. Themes and Key Persons SOAC 3 focused on the contemporary form and structure of Australian cities. The conference proceedings were grouped into six key sub-themes, each the focus of one of more conference sessions: City Economy - economic change and labour market outcomes of globalisation, land use pressures, changing employment locations. Social City – including population, migration, immigration, polarisation, equity and disadvantage, housing issues, recreation. City Environment - sustainable development, management and performance, natural resource management, limits to growth, impacts of air, water, climate, energy consumption, natural resource uses, conservation, green space. City Structures – the emerging morphology of the city – inner suburbs, middle suburbs, the CBD, outer suburbs and the urban-rural fringe, the city region. City Governance – including taxation, provision of urban services, public policy formation, planning, urban government, citizenship and the democratic process. City Infrastructure – transport, mobility, accessibility, communications and IT, and other urban infrastructure provision. Paper Review Process Conference papers published from SOAC 3 were produced through a process of integrated peer review. There were originally 147 abstracts proposed, 143 were invited to submit papers and 107 papers were finally published

Local implementation strategies in the urban built environment

The implementation of built-environment policies by the local state in the City of Boston in the last three decades is examined, and the contextual limits placed on the local state in devising and implementing policies is discussed. Two Boston neighborhoods, the Waterfront and the South End, are introduced as political spaces whose experience identifies three themes in the local state's management of possibly contentious built-environment policies: the encouragement of citizens' interest groups; the spatially differential targeting of public investment; and the awarding of advantage to large-scale capital.

The rural landscape of the Shire of Hastings

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Recognising Tertiary Students in Place-Making for Urban Spaces

The State of Australian Cities (SOAC) national conferences have been held biennially since 2003 to support interdisciplinary policy-related urban research. This paper was presented at SOAC 3 held in Adelaide from 28 to 30 November 2007. SOAC 3 was jointly hosted by the University of South Australia, the University of Adelaide and Flinders University. Themes and Key Persons SOAC 3 focused on the contemporary form and structure of Australian cities. The conference proceedings were grouped into six key sub-themes, each the focus of one of more conference sessions: City Economy - economic change and labour market outcomes of globalisation, land use pressures, changing employment locations. Social City – including population, migration, immigration, polarisation, equity and disadvantage, housing issues, recreation. City Environment - sustainable development, management and performance, natural resource management, limits to growth, impacts of air, water, climate, energy consumption, natural resource uses, conservation, green space. City Structures – the emerging morphology of the city – inner suburbs, middle suburbs, the CBD, outer suburbs and the urban-rural fringe, the city region. City Governance – including taxation, provision of urban services, public policy formation, planning, urban government, citizenship and the democratic process. City Infrastructure – transport, mobility, accessibility, communications and IT, and other urban infrastructure provision. Paper Review Process Conference papers published from SOAC 3 were produced through a process of integrated peer review. There were originally 147 abstracts proposed, 143 were invited to submit papers and 107 papers were finally published