b'MUDD 24 URBAN NETWORKS|URBAN GATEWAYSAcknowledgementsMUDD24 staff and students thank our many friends and supporters for the timeIn Boston we were privileged to receive background briefings of the highest calibre: and effort they have provided in continuing to make our program an outstandingfirst from Harris S. Band, Director of Physical Planning, Harvard Planning Office success. The list below includes key intellectuals, administrators, designers andand his colleague Joseph Breggan, Senior Manager for Transport on the Harvard developers who have contributed to the program throughout the course of the pastin Allston Project. At the Boston Planning & Development Agency, Boston City year in Sydney, Boston and Fukuoka.Hall we received a comprehensive briefing on the Imagine Boston 2030 plan, Beacon Yards redevelopment and the I-90 Relocation Project from John Read, For contributions to the UDES0001 Studies in Urban Form Studios (Semesters 1Senior Deputy Director for Transportation & Infrastructure Planning. At Boston & 2, 2018), Professor James Weirick thanks Amy Bendall (Urban Designer, CityUniversity we were welcomed to the 26th floor common room of the Hancock of Sydney) for her special tutoring; Michael Gheorghiu (Consultant Planner &Village tower with its a dramatic view over the Beacon Yards site by Elizabeth Urban Designer) for his outstanding commitment and expert guidance; BrendanLeary (Director of Community Relations), Paul Rinaldi (Assistant Vice President Randles (Senior Architect & Urban Designer, Architectus) for his advice andfor Planning & Design), and Cecilia Nardi (Director of Government Policy) for creative ideation during desk crits; Oliver Ju (MUDD 2015 - Landscape Architect,another comprehensive briefing on the Beacon Yards project, this time from the BU Johnson Pilton Walker) for the introductory workshop on mapping techniques;perspective. For a searching, inspirational presentation on the Allston communitys Jesse McNicoll (Urban Design Coordinator, City of Sydney) for his guest lecture onengagement with the Harvard in Allston and Beacon Yards projects, we thank urban densities; and Dean Utian from the FBE Teaching & Learning Team for hiscommunity activist Harry Mattison for a memorable Saturday morning.enthusiasm and special knowledge of film for the City & Cinematic Space studies.At Harvard Graduate School of Design we were hosted with great generosity For the UDES0002 Geodesign Studio (Semesters 1 & 2, 2018), Dr Scott Hawkenby Professor Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design & Planning, whose thanks Emeritus Professor Carl Steinitz, Harvard Graduate School of Design forpresentation on urban design at Harvard and introduction to the spatial drama of inviting us to join the International Geodesign Collaboration, and for his wiseGund Hall were exceptional. We were also delighted to meet up once again with counsel through the year; Hrishi Ballal (Managing Director, Geodesignhub) forour 2018 Reid Lecturer, Professor Peter Rowe.his special expertise and technical support; Dr Matthias Irger (Senior Associate, Architectus) and Dr Carlos Bartesaghi Koc (FBE) for their research-basedWe were also delighted to meet up once again with MUDD 1998 alumnus knowledge of development impacts on climate change in Western Sydney, andGeoffrey Morrison-Logan (Principal, Planning, Design & Landscape Architecture, their enthusiastic tutoring; Professor Robert Freestone (FBE) for his guest lecturesVanasse Hankin Brustlin, Watertown, MA), who joined us for the Interim and Final on Australian aerotropolis development; guest lecturers Jonathan Knapp (Director,Presentations at Sasaki Associates, and Dennis De Witt (Consultant Architect & Urban Design, SJB Sydney) and Glyn Richards (Director, Ampersand Property) forArchitectural Historian) who joined us for the Final Presentation as in 2017. Also their presentations on development feasibility; Michael Gheorghiu for his Westernin the Design Jury that afternoon, it was great to have Elizabeth Leary and Cecilia Sydney knowledge and organisation of the Badgerys Creek field trips; Joe Catania,Nardi from Boston University; David Gamble, Convenor of a Fall Semester Beacon Managing Director, Direct Freight Express, Warwick Farm for the special tour of hisYards Studio at Harvard GSD and Principal of Gamble Associates, Cambridge, MA; logistics facility during the aerotropolis field trips to Western Sydney; and Professortogether with Associate Einat Rosenkrantz and Senior Associate Chanwoo Kim Rod Simpson (Environment Commissioner, Greater Sydney Commission) for hisfrom the Sasaki urban design team.expert critique at the end-of-year Design Jury. Professor James Weirick extends sincere appreciation to Brendan Randles (Senior For the highly informative, stimulating lectures on the political and economicArchitect & Urban Designer, Architectus) for once again taking on the challenge of contexts necessary for our understanding before undertaking the UDES0003convening and leading the UDES0003 International Studio, this year in Fukuoka, International Studios in Fukuoka and Boston, we thank urban economist and long- Japan; and also Jun Sakaguchi (Studio Director, Jackson Teece), who facilitated standing friend of the MUDD Program John Zerby.the MUDD 2007 Studio in Tokyo and 2009 Studio in Nagoya, who joined us this year to provide design assistance, professional contacts and cultural reference 189192191 For our Boston Experience, Professor Weirick and Michael Gheorghiu expresspoints in Fukuoka, and to support design development back in Sydney. deep appreciation to our hosts at Sasaki Associates for their generosity in granting us the opportunity to work in their Watertown office for the second year in a row.The Fukuoka Studio would not have been possible without the outstanding In particular we thank Urban Design Principal Martin Zogran and Chair of Designgenerosity and support of our friends at Kyushu University, in particular our host, Dennis Pieprz for the formal invitation to Bostonand in addition, Dennis PieprzProfessor Magakuzu Tani (Dean of the School of Design) and co-convenors of for his inspirational lecture on the 21st Century University Campus, Martin Zogranthe Joint KU/UNSW Urban Design Studio, Associate Professor Tetsuya Ukai and for his expert guidance at our Interim Presentations, and his generous critique atAssistant Professor Masaaki Iwamoto. We specially thank Professor Iwamoto for the Final Presentation; and Associate Lachlan Hunter Hicks for his practical supporthis organisational assistance, walking tours in Fukuoka, Hakata Port, Nexus World throughout our stay. and Island City, and invaluable tutorial advice; Professor Ukai for his thoughtful commentary and critique in design reviews; and fellow academics from the KU Graduate School of Design: Dr Yoshitake Doi (Professor, History of Western MUDD 24 - Urban Gateways | Urban Networkswrap up8PT.indd 20 26/11/2019 5:02:38 PM'