b'MUDD 25 - Urban Intensity l Urban Design - Sydneyscale and character of the intensified urban matrix as aUNESCO World Heritage-listed Grand Canal. In Beijing, series of eco-precincts, interwoven with green and bluethe studio was hosted by Professor Yu Kongjian at the infrastructure. College of Architecture & Landscape Architecture, at Peking University and his practice, Turenscape, where On Brisbane Water, north of Broken Bay, a combinedstudents explored the possibility of revitalizing peri-MUDD and Master of Landscape Architecture studiourban villages at the eastern water-gate to Beijing, undertook advanced GIS modelling to determine thethrough a fusion of sustainable agriculture and high-impact of climate change-induced sea-level rise on low- tech spin off industries, the latter already clustering lying waterfront communities. Working with the scenarioin the study area around a national cyber industry planning approach of the CSIRO Futures Institute,facility. In Hangzhou, hosted by Professor Wu Yue and the studio groups proposed new forms of resilient,Professor He Yong at the College of Civil Engineering & consolidated settlements on higher ground, with theArchitecture, Zhejiang University (ZJU), UNSW students climate adaptation moves underpinned by transfer ofworked with ZJU students to propose solutions for development rights principles. challenging brownfields sites in the former belt of heavy industry along the Grand Canal 10km north of the In the Green Square Urban Renewal Area, a MUDD25historic centre of the city.Studio interrogated the City of Sydney policies and controls aimed at maintaining light industrial usesExploring projects of this scale and complexity in three immediately west and south-west of Green Squareglobal cities not only inspires students but also develops Town Centre, given the development of a Metro stationprofessionals that are adept at handling complex at Waterloo within a 10 minutes walk of the existingurban challenges. It is evident from the portfolio of Green Square station. A new pattern of regenerationurban intensification projects profiled in this 25th year will be produced if the current wedge of low intensityof the MUDD Program that it continues to engender service industry employment lands is replaced withrobust strategic thinking and critical discourse, guiding TOD concentrations of density around the two stations.students to propose design solutions that balance While affecting employment diversity, introducingcompeting urban agendas with vigorous analysis and more compact development and connectivity to thisobjectivity. The MUDD 25 Yearbook presents a series part of Green Square, would create the opportunity toof propositions, supported by insightful reflections regenerate the water system of Sheas Creek extendingby the academic staff, that demonstrate the inherent down to the Alexandra Canal as a blue/green spine atstrength of urban design education set within an urban the heart of a new community. development framework. We look forward to seeing how our MUDD25 graduates use their interdisciplinary skills At North Sydney, the opportunity to transform theto transform urban environments and the lives of city single use 9-5 CBD, into a truly diverse 24/7 citydwellers in the years to come.centre has been created by the new Metro station in this key part of Sydneys Global Economic Corridor. The MUDD25 North Sydney studio re-conceptualisedReferencesthe over-Metro development as a catalyst for civicGuan, C.H. & Rowe, P.G.2016,The concept of urban intensity and regeneration, injecting cultural and educational usesChinas townisation policy: cases from Zhejiang Province,Cities,into a new commercial and residential mix at a level ofvol.55,pp.22-41.intensification that could give the centre of North SydneyUnited Nations2015,The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,the urban vitality it currently lacks. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld Further afield, in our international studios in Beijing and Hangzhou, the MUDD25 students examined the potential of new patterns of urban intensity to transform strategic sites at the southern and northern ends of the 2P1-20200229-FOLIOINTRO.indd7 2020/3/810:24:51'