Academic Themes
The Conference will focus on the contemporary form and structure of
Australian cities. The overarching conference meta-themes will be: The
Sustainability and Vulnerability of Urban Australia.
The conference aims to provide a focus for new urban scholarship and will
bring together the most prominent academics working in this area in
Australia, together with new researchers and others – policy makers and
practitioners – who are interested in the Australian city.
The proceedings will be grouped into six key sub-themes, each the focus of
one of more conference sessions and each with its own multi-disciplinary
Editorial Review Panel:
1. The city economy – economic change and labour market outcomes of
globalisation, land use pressures, changing employment locations.
2. The social city – population, migration, cultures, immigration,
polarisation, equity and disadvantage, housing issues, recreation.
3. The environmental city – sustainable development, management and
performance, natural resource management, limits to growth, impacts of air,
water, climate, energy consumption, natural resource uses, conservation and
green space.
4. Changing city structures –morphology of the city – inner suburbs, middle
suburbs, the CBD, outer suburbs, the urban-rural fringe, the city region.
5. City governance – finance, taxation, provision of urban services, public
policy formation, planning, urban government, citizenship, accountability,
the democratic process.
6. City infrastructure – transport, mobility, accessibility, communications,
IT, water supply, sewerage, other urban infrastructure provision.