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Real-time (RT) transport information conveys actual locations of transport services in real-time, as opposed to only timetabled departure times. The development of RT transport information mobile applications has become a focus of many public transport organisations due to their relatively low cost and high customer value. This paper explores a combinatorial approach taken by Transport for New South Wales, for the public transport network in Sydney, Australia. This approach cost effectively delivered six applications to market within months through the alignment of stakeholder interests. The paper traces the multi-stakeholder network of development from initial concept, into implementation, and continual expansion across the network. This study uses Actor-network Theory (Callon 1986; Latour 2005) as a research strategy to discuss the successful alignment of the interests of the range of stakeholders across the aspects of development. The case is presented in a multi-voiced account through the four moments of Translation (Callon 1986); Problematisation, Interessement, Enrolment and Mobilisation. Actor-network Theory is an ontologically relativist and post-structuralist research strategy that respects potential symmetries of agency of both human and non-human entities. This study uses (12) interviews with stakeholders involved in the activity of the project to understand the Actor-network of the development of the RT applications and also refers to literature such as related media releases and news articles. This case deconstructs Sydney's case to a point where it is clearer as to what some of these formative influences were from the perspective of those participants in the development of the RT applications. Intent of the study The aim of this paper is to understand how each of the actors came into involvement and aligned with the project intent and how this alignment came to hold as a stable network. This paper explains the emergence of the management structure to act as a reference as other cities contemplate their means to make these RT information services available. The use of Actor-network Theory as a research framework expands the framing of the 'project' in problem definition to years before the 'official' Transport for NSW project commenced. The case a for less technology-led, more integrated and demand-driven approach to implementation of urban digital services is demonstrated in this case, with emphasis on public sector planning and facilitation of viable business opportunities for third party developers.

Since the mid-2000s, the " Smart City " has emerged as a popular discourse describing technological solutions to challenges of urban gover-nance. The Smart City has been praised but also criticized as a discourse for its narrow epistemology. Limitations have led to reductionist bench-marking that lends itself to comparison, yet limits practitioners' ability to translate findings into ontologically diverse action. In the related fields of information systems and management studies, a pragmatist research paradigm has been used to address this challenge. This article explores that pragmatist paradigm, describing how it can expand the current limits of the current Smart City discourse to include local politics, technologies, and the relational genealogies that characterize sociotechnical systems. The pragmatist methodology I explore here uses excerpts from practitioner oral histories—organized visually using actor-network theory—to define and explain the emergence of two Smart City initiatives. This approach is capable of a more situated and contingent practitioner explanation of the complexity of urban projects. Ultimately, the article concludes with reflections on the use of pragmatism for Smart City cases to provide a counter perspective to the dominant discourse.

Public transport provision is a wicked problem (Rittel & Webber 1973), in which many stakeholders have a vested interest in the way the services are delivered such as councils, transport service providers, local retail destinations, advertising companies, and citizens. Many of whom have quite different views of what a good design outcome is. Transport provision is one of the most complex, politically charged issues for most cities, and increasingly so in many locations, due to physical capacity constraints in developed areas, with already at capacity infrastructure to service the cities growing needs. Digital customer information systems, have been seen as a low cost means to improve customer experience on the transport network, but also as a means to improve the efficiency of the use of the physical infrastructure for example, stations and train carriages, through assisting to manage crowds at peak periods or at times of disrupted service. But how can these digital information syst...

Real-time (RT) transport information conveys actual locations of transport services in real-time, as opposed to only timetabled departure times. The development of RT transport information mobile applications has become a focus of many public transport organisations due to their relatively low cost and high customer value. This paper explores a combinatorial approach taken by Transport for New South Wales, for the public transport network in Sydney, Australia. This approach cost effectively delivered six applications to market within months through the alignment of stakeholder interests. The paper traces the multi-stakeholder network of development from initial concept, into implementation, and continual expansion across the network. This study uses Actor-network Theory (Callon 1986; Latour 2005) as a research strategy to discuss the successful alignment of the interests of the range of stakeholders across the aspects of development. The case is presented in a multi-voiced account t...

This paper presents the findings of empirical research on social housing renewal projects designed to achieve social/tenure mix. The findings illustrate that the benefits normally attributed to social mix are in practice contingent on other concurrent programs.

Objective To provide evidence to underpin a minimum clear width dimension for a wayfinding path and the associated falling risk for the use of all vision impaired persons walking with a guide dog. Research design and methods Part D1.6 of the National Construction Code sets the minimum width of a wayfinding path at 1000mm. The Australian Building Codes Board and Australian Human Rights Commission agreed that the minimum width should accommodate 90% of the population in terms of their body dimensions and associated physical characteristics and abilities. The anthropometric attributes of the 90 th percentile of potential users were reviewed. The associated body dimensions were identified from a number of internationally peer-reviewed sources and space requirements established for movement safety (user and guide dog). A fully dimensioned visual image was assembled from the evidence and the minimum clear width established (Figure 2 and Tables 1 and 2).

We would also like to acknowledge Yong-Jung Moon, a research associate who assisted with SPSS. This project was a partnership with SEQUAL consequently we would also like to acknowledge the assistance of Kevin Conlon; Martin Lynch; Craig Swan and Pauline Negline in providing materials, access to reverse mortgage professionals and in feedback about methods. AHURI Ltd is an independent, non-political body which has supported this project as part of its programme of research into housing and urban development, which it hopes will be of value to policy-makers, researchers, industry and communities. The opinions in this publication reflect the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of AHURI Ltd, its Board or its funding organisations. No responsibility is accepted by AHURI Ltd or its Board or its funders for the accuracy or omission of any statement, opinion, advice or information in this publication. AHURI Final Reports is a refereed series presenting the results of original research to a diverse readership of policy makers, researchers and practitioners. An objective assessment of all reports published in the AHURI Final Report Series by carefully selected experts in the field ensures that material of the highest quality is published. The AHURI Final Report Series employs a double-blind peer review of the full Final Report-where anonymity is strictly observed between authors and referees.

Mobilities in settler states have become a defining feature of indigenous spatiality. This is mainly due to the structural disadvantage of indigenous communities in relation to urban locations. In Israel, Palestinian citizens are relocating to Jewish cities because of systemic discrimination, primarily in the allocation of land and housing construction permits in Arab locales. Yet, as this paper shows, their movement is neither unidirectional nor an one-time event, but ongoing and circular. Able to enjoy only certain economic and social rights in indigenous spaces and other rights in settler spaces, Palestinian citizens continuously commute between the two. Utilizing a human rights based approach, the paper unpacks Palestinian mobility practices to illuminate a lacuna in the literature, which has overlooked the quest for rights as a driving force of indigenous mobilities. The paper further demonstrates that circular mobilities become a generative act that connects the settler city to neighboring localities in a way that undermines the separation between 'Jewish' and 'Palestinian' spaces, and collapses the distinction between the 'urban' and 'regional.' Rather than attempting to integrate within the city, Palestinians incorporate the city within their own ethno-regional topography, thereby asserting their presence and a claim to the city-space itself.

A vast body of research has characterised urban Indigeneity as a novel phenomenon. In response, this paper historicises the presence of Indigenous people in settler-colonial cities. I argue that although Indigenous people have always been a part of the urban landscape, their presence has remained largely unheeded due to their positioning as transients. Insufficient critical engagement with Indigenous urban histories has obfuscated a shift in their status from transients to residents in cities. As transients, Indigenous groups were denied access to decision making and their presence was confined and conditional. Positioned as residents, Indigenous peoples now constitute subaltern counterpublics who partake in political processes. Adopting a comparative approach, I use archival and ethnographic material to explore narratives of policy makers, bureaucrats and urban planners in two settler-colonial cities: Kar-miel in Israel/Palestine and Townsville in northern Queensland, Australia. In each location I examine the top-down (settler) positioning of Indigenous people within the city space and the contemporary manifestations of Indigenous political mobilisation. Findings show that while settler-colonial urbanism was initially predicated upon the exclusion of Indigenous people, it necessitated their provisional and restrictive inclusion. This structure inadvertently led to the emergence of Indigenous counterpublics in the city.

As a conferred status, citizenship is commonly imagined as a binary; one is either a citizen or not. However, citizenship is better understood as a spectrum of rights and opportunities to participate in public life, and is neither historically stable nor equally experienced. Citizenship excludes through differential inclusion and offers protection to some, while failing to safeguard the rights and wellbeing of others (Balibar 2017). The legal and cultural terrain on which the status and practice of citizenship rest are constantly shifting. While much has been written about the precarity of statelessness and migration (McNevin 2011, Gundogdu 2015), less has been written about the ways that precarity is experienced by citizens. Citizenship is gradated rather than universal, and in extreme cases its degradation can lead to legalized genocide. The inequalities of citizenship sustain histories of colonialism and racism, while ongoing states of emergency, new technologies of surveillance and in/ security, and savage neoliberalism erode the legitimacy of old rights and the capacity to claim new ones. This panel seeks to create a forum for comparatively examining the cultural specificity of rights and the gradation and degradation of citizenship within states. We pose the central question of how cultural values and practices legitimize or discourage citizenship inequalities and facilitate the legislative changes that reconstitute citizenship within nation states, for example by rolling back or introducing new rights. Moreover, we seek to understand how such changes produce new precarities of life and how these affect the everyday realities of citizens. To submit an abstract, visit the conference website: https://www.aasconf.org/2018/call-for-papers/ Abstracts deadline: July 16

In the conspicuously geographical debate between 'North' and 'South' urbanism, settler colonial cities remain displaced. They are located in the 'North' but embody 'South-like' colonial dynamics and are hence neither colonial nor postcolonial. Heeding the call to theorize from 'any city', this article aims to contribute to a more systematic theorization of the urban from settler colonial cities. In it we focus on the work property does to materialize the settler colonial city and its specific relations of power. We identify three faces of property––as object, as redress and as land––and use case vignettes from Israel/ Palestine and Australia to consider how each register continues to inform the functioning of settler colonial cities. We find that, through property, dispossession and settlement are continuously performed and creatively enacted. At the same time, the performance of property reaffirms the endurance of Indigenous land systems amid ongoing colonization. The article makes a contribution to contemporary debates in urban studies about the importance of surfacing the specificities of urban experiences around the world, while further unsettling the dissociative nature of urban property.

Repossession of land by Indigenous people is commonly understood as a legal act that unfolds within the confines of state apparatuses. But for many Indigenous urbanites, legal repossession is both impossible and irrelevant due to their histories of dispossession and dislocation. Moreover, while land repossession in Australia is predominantly non-urban, I demonstrate that land is also reclaimed within cities. Urban repossession of land, considered here as reciprocal rather than legal, challenges the model of private ownership by asserting a territorially transferable relationship to property as land. The order of property entrenches Indigenous people's dispossession by demanding immobility as precondition to ownership and rendering Indigenous urbanites all "too mobile". Against this framing and the liquidation of their lands as capital, Indigenous people practice reciprocal forms of repossession that challenge both liberal and traditional meanings of ownership. This helps retrieve urban Indigenous subjectivities while compelling partial relinquishment of non-Indigenous properties.