b'MUDD 24 URBAN NETWORKS|URBAN GATEWAYSUrban Networks &Urban Gateways Sydney | Boston | FukuokaMessage from the Program Director:Professor James Weirick INTERNATIONALSTUDIO-2018 CONVENORS: In our 24th year, the Urban Networks | UrbanThe decision to build the long-delayed CONVENORS:Gateways theme integrates studio projectsWestern Sydney Airport at Badgerys Creek, undertaken in Sydney, Boston and Fukuokaannounced by the Federal Government PROFESSORJAMESWEIRICK in 2017, has unleashed the last phase of with a series of critical essays exploring the BOSTONSTUDIO complex challenge of city-making in the 21sturbanisation across the Cumberland Plain MICHAELGHEORGHIU century. Focussing on entry points to the three- an urban expansion that will pave over citiesurban development around the newthe last remnants of green in the green airport in Western Sydney, transit orientedwedges between the growth corridors of the development associated with the Sydney Metro1968 Sydney Region Outline Plan. These project, the potential of a reconstructed westernpatches of rural land, slated to become an entry to Boston, and the remaking of HakataAirport City or Aerotropolis, are themselves Port, Fukuoka, Japan - the MUDD24 projectsremnants of the heroic greenbelt proposal have engaged with the central concerns of theof the 1940s Cumberland County Plan. UNSW Master of Urban Development & DesignConfronting this reality, MUDD Studio 2 Program: convened by Dr Scott Hawken undertookSpatial political economy, the manifestationa year-long study of urban growth and 5 in urban form of global patterns of capitalchange around Western Sydney Airport formation, investment and disinvestment;as part of the International Geodesign Collaboration organised by Emeritus Professor James WeirickUrban design principles and paradigms,Professor Carl Steinitz of Harvard Graduate James Weiricknormative models of good city formSchool of Design, which has enlisted grounded in aesthetic, social anduniversities worldwide to model and environmental concerns; and,measure alternative responses to climateUrban design as public policy, thechange. The results, presented in the intersection of public policy, designMUDD24 Yearbook, are complemented principles, the deal-making of the propertyby the 2019 Reid Lecture, Cooling the sector and defence of the public realm. Cities, to be given by Scientia Professor MUDD 24 - Urban Gateways | Urban NetworksINTRO 8pt.indd 6 26/11/2019 4:11:23 PMMichael Gheorghiu97DIOBoston 8pt.indd 4 26/11/2019 5:05:13 PM'