b'SYDNEY - BOSTON - FUKUOKA 2018 - 2019Mattheos Santamouris, which criticallyReturning to Boston once again at theEnthusiastically supported by Mr Takahisa reviews advances in science and design forgenerous invitation of our 2017 hosts,Nakamura, CEO of the Fukuoka Port Authority the mitigation of urban heat. The ambitionMartin Zogran and Dennis Pieprz ofand his colleagues, the Studio reconsidered of MUDD Studio 2 has been to go beyondSasaki Associates, the first of our MUDD24the MICE-focussed brief (Meetings, Incentives, conjectural propositions to evidence-basedInternational Studios which I convened inConferencing, Exhibitions) to propose a rich designs, integrating computer-based decision- association with Michael Gheorghiu, took onarray of mixed-use solutions as a new centre support systems with Climatope measuresthe challenge of imagining futures for Beaconfor Fukuoka, complementing the commercial of environmental impact to model alternativeYards - the 110 ha brownfields site purchasedcore centred on the main railway station at cool city scenarios for the Western Sydneyby Harvard University across the Charles RiverHakata and the dynamic retail centre at Tenjin. Aerotropolis. in Allston. This is a former railroad marshallingThe complexity of the challenge is presented yard crossed by a deteriorating viaduct ofin essays by Brendan Randles and Professor Within the existing low-density matrix ofthe Mass Turnpike (I-90) and a western railIwamoto, and a companion essay on the Metropolitan Sydney, MUDD Studio 1, whichline with the potential for a new West Stationdevelopment of HafenCity Hamburg by our I convened in association with Consultantserved by commuter rail, and indeed HighVisiting Professorial Fellow, Dr Karl Fischer Planner and Urban Designer MichaelSpeed Rail to New York. Under study sinceprovides a fascinating parallel study to the Gheorgiu, undertook a critical, year-longthe 1990s, the Beacon Yards developmentproposed redevelopment of Hakata Port, which study of transit-oriented development aroundhas recently gathered pace as the Harvardis a very real project.a representative station on the proposedUniversity endowment recovers from its $11 Southwest Metro at Canterbury on the Cooksbillion (30%) loss at the time of the GlobalBoth international studios were informed before River. The Canterbury Station Precinct wasFinancial Crisis. The possibilities of the siteour departure overseas by background studies identified for upzoning and redevelopment byare immense as a new western gateway toundertaken in UDES0009 Urban Landscape the NSW Government in 2017 as part of a planthe centre of Boston and as a network city& Heritage directed by Dr Scott Hawken and to densify nodal points along the Sydenham- of educational excellence and innovationDr Anne Warr, and by stimulating lectures on Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor associatedconnecting Harvard, MIT and Bostonthe spatial political economy of Boston and with conversion of the existing suburban railUniversity. To highlight the differing interestsFukuoka by John Zerby, which he has recast in line to a rapid-service Metro. To challenge thein the site, the MUDD Studio was dividedhis MUDD24 Yearbook essay, Value Creation stereotyped Legoland design solutions thatinto five teams, each approaching the designwith Spatial Networks.have resulted from densification in Sydney tochallenge from the perspective of a different date, MUDD Studio 1 took a Studies in Urbanplayer - the City of Boston, Harvard University,We congratulate the MUDD24 students for Form approach of learning from precedentsBoston University, the Allston Community andthe creative achievement of Urban Networks | worldwideBarcelona, Berlin, Foshan, LyonAmazon HQ2 (a hot topic at the time of ourUrban Gateways - Sydney | Boston | Fukuoka. and Hammarby Sjstad, Stockholm. Variousvisit). A convincing solution to the Harvard inWe extend sincere appreciation to Jodi Lawton urban forms and building types were testedAllston campus plan, however, was the key toof Lawton Design and Andrew Sweeney of within a development study based on existingthe Studio, and in meeting this challenge, wePalfreeman Sweeney Architects for the very property prices, housing types and subdivisionwere immeasurably helped by a presentationspecial efforts that have made presentation patterns in Canterbury that revealedby Dennis Pieprz on Sasakis achievementsof this work possible. Generous support for densification only began to be feasible at ain creating the university campus of the 21stthe 2019 Paul Reid Lecture in Urban Design, Floor Space Ratio of 3: 1. To reconcile humancentury, which he has provided as an essay fortogether with the MUDD24 Yearbook and scale, street life and activity patterns with thisthe MUDD24 Yearbook in association with hisExhibition has been provided by the Faculty scale of development, the Studio adaptedfellow Sasaki Principal, Romil Sheth. of Built Environment and our loyal sponsors: 6the City & Cinematic analysis techniquesScott Carver, Bates Smart, Blacktown City developed in MUDD Studio 1 in 2017 to aOur second MUDD24 International Studio wasCouncil, Group GSA, Jianfeng Engineering series of progression through space studiesheld in Fukuoka, Japan hosted by the GraduateCost Consulting, Johnson Pilton Walker, of a densified Canterbury, recognising thatSchool of Design, Kyushu University. ConvenedUrbis, Architectus, Pascal Bobillier, Dickson to fund an acceptable public realm, effectiveby Brendan Randles from Architectus and JunRothschild, Habitat Planning, LFA, Urban value capture would be essential. To cast lightSakaguchi from Jackson Teece, the StudioConcepts and Wolski Coppin; together with on the challenge of value capture in relationtook on a challenge presented by our hosts,donor Liu Hongqiao and a most generous to the Sydney Metro project, Jeremy DawkinsProfessor Magakuzu Tani (Dean of the Schoolanonymous sponsor. For the vital support provides a powerful critique of the over-Metroof Design), Associate Professor Tetsuya Ukaiwe have received from our sponsors and development in North Sydney. and Assistant Professor Masaaki Iwamoto -our donor this year we express our deepest redevelopment of the Hakata Port waterfront.thanks. Master of Urban Development & Design 2018-2019INTRO 8pt.indd 7 26/11/2019 4:11:23 PM'