b'MUDD 24 URBAN NETWORKS|URBAN GATEWAYSUrban Networks &Urban Gateways Sydney | Boston | FukuokaMessage from the Dean:Professor Helen LochheadRapid urbanisation and the resultantthe city as more than a series of places but a consequences occupy our students in theseries of vital urban networks that shape the UNSW Master of Urban Development & Designmovement corridors and spaces in and through (MUDD) Program. For more than 20 years, theour cities. Focused in 3 cities, Sydney, Boston program has attracted an international studentand Fukuoka, the students have explored cohort and delivered a rigorous academicthe potential of major transport gateways to program that addresses our most pressingshape the urban form of the city. These great global urban challenges. Importantly, the 1-yearcity gateways, whether rail stations, port or air intensive program of post-graduate study equipsterminals, have a tremendous influence on our graduates to lead the planning, design andthe shaping of our cities spatially, socially and development of these complex and fast pacedeconomically. Major gateways such as Fukuokas urban environments, wherever they may be. Hakata Port, Bostons Massachusetts Turnpike and Sydneys new international airport, are much A key component of the MUDD Program is themore than transport interchanges, they have the immersive studio design projects that challengepotential to be vibrant and memorable places students to address both local and internationalintrinsic to the cities they serve. Their presence 3 urban agendas.This creates well-roundedtransforms the urban condition, the urban graduates who are able to think strategicallynetwork and indeed the city life that surrounds as urban designers and appropriately adjustthem.Professor Helen Lochheadtheir design solutions to the different political, economic and social contexts of cities in whichOften however, such projects are more they may operate around the world. introverted and singular in purpose, rather than harnessing the opportunity to deliver multiple Drawing on the writing of Manuel Castells inbenefits to the communities they serve. Transport The Rise of the Network Society (1996), thisprojects, once publicly funded, have now years studio theme, Urban Networks, Urbanbecome complex mixes of public and private Gateways challenged our students to think ofinvestments, representing a significant range of MUDD 24 - Urban Gateways | Urban NetworksINTRO 8pt.indd 4 26/11/2019 4:11:23 PM'