b'Critical Urban Project: Studies in Urban Form - Arncliffe/Cooks Cove PrecinctsStudents first undertook introductory exercises analysing and representing the experience of progression through urban space in and around the Victoria Park urban renewal precinct in Zetland.Critical precedent studies of Ecocity Principles and Practice were then carried out, particularly with reference to urban ecosystems, blue-green infrastructure, urban form, and building types. Precedents included in these studies were ProfessorDongtan, Chongming Island, Shanghai, China; Vauban Quarter, Freiburg, James Weirick Germany; Kronsberg, Hannover, Germany; Hammarby Sjstad, Stockholm, Sweden; and Newington Olympic Village, Homebush Bay, Sydney.The studio then took a Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) / Sponge City approach to urban growth and change within the Eve Street/Cahill Park water catchment, which links the precincts (extending from the Princes Highway ridgeline to the Cooks River near its confluence with Botany Bay) to generate comparative urban design frameworks for the study area based on a critical analysis of urban form, eco city paradigms and precedents, biophysical constraints and development challenges, factoring in the assembled research data and urban design theory.67P3-20200301-SYDNEY STUDIO.indd 32 2020/3/8 11:22:41'