b'MUDD 25 - Urban Intensity l Urban Design - SydneyAachen University, which took place in cooperation withContrasting perspectives like those in the German international scholars from Italy, Spain and England,11context referred to above tend to surface in provided major impulses for the turnaround initiated byinterdisciplinary co-operation and to supply material Berlins International Building Exhibition of 1984/1987.for creative controversies in many places, including The IBA became the signal and model for the post- Australia. To make these processes fruitful requires modern turn in urbanism rehabilitating the historic cityrespect for each others positionsdiscourse rather and also producing new forms of cooperation amongthan dogma. In the context of the MUDD program, this different disciplines.12 discourse has taken shape in the key theoretical works produced over the years and the Yearbook essays Since then, the controversies between architectscontributed by the core personalities within UNSW and planners have gone through countless ups andthat have shaped the course over time and by the downs. German Stdtebau is still being described as avisitors, Paul Reid lecturers and the hosts of our urban battlefield between visionary architects and pragmaticdesign studios in universities, architecture offices and planners 13 in a closely regulated urban developmentmunicipalities abroad. Seen together, these essays context. Nevertheless, in the everyday practice of urbanproduced over time form an anthology of positions and development carried out as an activity controlled bythought on the complex interdisciplinary field of urban statutory authorities, Stdtebau has prevailed as andevelopment and design, with mutually reinforcing integrative approach, set within the rights and obligationsarguments as well as contradictory positions in a defined in the 1949 German Constitution to operate increative constant delicate balance. the public interest, defined in clear terms through public deliberation14. While planners are, by nature of theirWhile this addresses the nature of interdisciplinary studies, less proficient in three-dimensional design,cooperation everywhere, it is the integrative view from even if educated in a multidisciplinary program of study,the three central thematic windows of spatial political graduates of planning (as well as architecture) startingeconomy, urban design principles and paradigms, and public service careers go through a most rigorous two- urban design as public policy that makes the MUDD year in-practice course with tough exams. This enablesprogram unique. them to play their role in guiding the physical dimension of urban development, be it at the metropolitan level orTogether with the elaborate teaching strategy addressed in mixed-use districts, in urban regeneration processesabove, which merges a consistent underlying structure and in competitions. Thus, planners and architects sharewith the integration of new perspectives and methods, their competences in the concept-based tenderingcombining long-term continuity with the adoption of new process as practiced in Hamburg and many otherapproaches, these fundamental principles of the MUDD cities.15program constitute a compass for good city making.Yet, at the same time, bizarre ideological controversies over urban design and Stadtbaukunst, the art of city building in the tradition of Camillo Sitte, are still splitting the German community of architect-planners and urban planners into two camps Architects hold urban planners in local government responsible for the ugliness of modern cities and urban planners in turn reject the unjustified criticism arguing that the critique of the community of architects lacks any sense of the reality of governance in market-led urban development in the 21st century. 16 Sometimes it seems as if little has changed since the old simplifying black-and-white debates of the post-war years.14P1-20200229-FOLIO INTRO.indd 17 2020/3/5 21:42:59'