STATE OF AUSTRALIAN CITIES CONFERENCE 2007
The 2007 State of Australian Cities Conference was held in Adelaide from 28-30 November and was adjudged a great success by the 300 or so academics, researchers, students and policymakers who attended.
The conference attracted over 120 excellent research papers on the current state of research relating to Australian Cities and current urban policy challenges. Submitted papers and the four keynote addresses by Brendan Gleeson, Pauline McGuirk, Steve Dovers and Ruth Fincher are now available.
SOAC 2007 also saw the launch of the ‘Australia Futures Task Force’ report
by Professor Bob Stimson. For details and a downloadable copy of this, go to
www.siss.edu.au.
The Australian Sustainable Cities and Regions Network now invites bids to
host the 2009 SOAC Conference. An outline of the purposes of the SOAC
Conference and of the Selection Principles and Process can be obtained by
clicking on the link to SOAC 2009 at the left-hand side of this page.
On behalf of the Conference Organising Committee, I should like to express my sincere thanks to the authors, speakers, panel chairs, track chairs, referees, keynote speakers, sponsors, host universities, student guides, support staff and the many other contributors who helped make SOAC 2007 such a success. The State of Australian Cities Conference is now firmly established on the Australian academic calendar and we look forward to another outstanding conference in 2009.
Professor Steve Hamnett
Chair
SOAC 2007