b'MUDD 24 URBAN NETWORK|URBAN GATEWAYLike many large Australian cities, Sydney is facing athat they have arrived in the urban heart of the city.dramatic growth in its population. 1.6 million new residentsTwo UNSW studios in 2019 promoted the re-consideration are expected over the next 15 years with the majority ofof the airport and its associated urban centre as a strategic this being proposed for peripheral areas including Westernfigure in a global negation of climate change and urban heat Sydney. One of Sydneys major planning challenges isisland challenges. The power of the geodesign approach to balance the concentration of employment in the eastwas developed in two specific ways at UNSW in semester with new economic development in the west, where most1 and 2 of 2018. The standard workflow was applied at two of the population now live. The federal, state and localscales with investigations carried out at a 20 x 20km area governments have struck a city deal whereby a novel modeland at a 1 x 1km area. Different combinations of software of urban development to address this network imbalance. were used at each scale with experimental software first The airport has been situated as part of an infrastructureused with the Greater Sydney Commission within the alliance or city deal to address this network imbalance.standard workflowIn Khannas words the material and the diplomatic are two sides of the same coin bringing together all levelsClimate Analytic Techniques - Two Scales and Two of government and private industry along for the sameAnalytic Techniquesdevelopment ride. (Khanna, 2016). This vision has beenStudents studied and worked at two scales the urban meso described in infrastructural terms as an Aerotropolis whichscale and urban micro scale. The first a 20 x 20km area was coined by the entrepreneurial academic John Kasardacentred on the proposed airportthis is the meso-scale. (2011). Western Sydney Aeroptrolis represents a newThe second 1 x 1 km area focused on, Bringelly, a new economic model and vision for the urban development ofmixed-use urban centre supporting the Aerotropolis district Western Sydney.this is the scale of urban microclimate. T he two scales However, lost amongst this deal making and investment inwhere developed according to the parameters of each of the grey infrastructure and government-business relationshipsthree scenarios that were given as part of the International is a clear vision of climate leadership. Rather, approachesGeodesign Collaboration: Early Adopter Scenario (EAS), to climate mitigation and climate sensitive development areLate Adopter Scenario (LAS) and Non-Adopter Scenario fragmented and isolated limited to local council alliances(NAS).and policies. The same network thinking being applied toThe 20 x 20 km featured various urban patterns across conventional infrastructure needs to be applied to climatethe three scenarios. This scale was analysed using a innovation. In short Western Sydney must be re-invented asmethod known as climatope analysis (L. Katzschner, an urban climate innovation laboratory in the way PlastrikBurghardt, Kupski, & Campe, 2016). In this analysis land-& Cleveland argue for (2018). use systems were re-classified in terms of their impact on The transformation of Western Sydneys degraded ecologicalurban microclimate and coded according to the intensity 67 and agricultural systems into a new urban centre withof their impact. For example, Grey infrastructure (coded 61Western Sydney Airport (WSA) at its centre will contributered) such as the airport has a much higher impact than disproportionately to climate change and the urban heatGreen infrastructure (coded green) such as the parklands. island effect. Airports and their associated infrastructureThis simple but powerful technique reveals the climatic have a major impact on urban microclimates due to theirconsequences of various urban patterns and highlights hot extensive impermeable and climate in-sensitive surfaces.areas which require access to cool air production zones In neoliberal Australia airports are consumerist destinationsfor temperature relief. This method is effective in assessing in themselves. In many respects they have been forgottenscenarios in terms of their varying spatial configuration.For as urban gateways in the sense that the magnificent 19ththe submission to the international geodesign collaboration century train stations were. The best infrastructural stationsfurther work was completed on the the 1 x 1 km scale and airports declare to the citizen, tourist and home-comeranalysis. A hypothetical Bringelly town centre developed MUDD 24 - Urban Gateway & Urban Network - Sydney Introduction studio 2 8pt.indd 6 26/11/2019 4:59:32 PM'