State of Australian Cities conference 2005 focused on the contemporary form and structure of Australian cities. The central theme was the sustainability and vulnerability of urban Australia.
State of Australian Cities conference 2005 aimed 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.
There were six key sub-themes, each the focus of one of more conference sessions and each with its own multi-disciplinary editorial review panel:
- The city economy - economic change and labour market outcomes of globalisation, land use pressures, changing employment locations
- The social city - including population, migration, cultures, immigration, polarisation, equity and disadvantage, housing issues, recreation
- 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, green space
- Changing 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 - finance, taxation, provision of urban services, public policy formation, planning, urban government, citizenship, accountability and the democratic process
- Infrastructure - transport, mobility, accessibility, communications and IT, water supply and sewerage and other urban infrastructure provision