Urban Development & Design
The City of Sydney is a growing metropolis with many major urban design and development projects whether built or in progress such as: Circular Quay, Darling Harbour, the Pyrmont peninsula, the 2000 Olympic Games site, and various housing areas.
Career
The MUDD course has been in existence for ten years. On completing the
course most graduates start their careers working for urban and architectural
design consultants. Some already head their own professional practices in urban
design and allied design areas and receive a number of awards. Others have
gone on to careers in academia or to doctoral studies at major international
universities such as the University of Tokyo and the National University of
Singapore. Yet others already hold senior positions in the public service. The
network of MUDD graduate now extends across ten different countries reaching
from the Americas to Eritrea via Asia and Australia. The new interactive network
allows graduate to communicate and share urban design issues.
Hear from the Graduates
Nadira Yapa Mendia - Sri Lanka
MSc Environmental Science, MUDD
Apart from teaching me the fundamentals of urban design, the MUDD course helped
change my frame of reference and way of thinking - an essential, but difficult to
achieve, transformation. It also exposed me to leading practitioners in the field,
which gave me the opportunity to work with one of the foremost urban design firms
in Sydney.
Currently, I’m involved in the design and construction of a dedicated bus transport
network linking a wide range of land uses in Western Sydney, which is an area
starved of public transportation facilities. Now I’m working on the kinds of
projects that I’ve always hoped I could be involved with, and having fun doing it!
Clair Billingham - UK
BSc (Hons) Town Planning, PGrad Dip Town Planning, University College London
As an urban planner, the MUDD program has enabled me to consolidate, build upon my
skills and more fully understand the myriad of elements that are involved within the
urban development and design process: this diversity is often lacking in an
undergraduate planning course. The MUDD program has enabled me to become an integral
part of an urban design team rather than a single element in the urban design process.
Giancario Cerutti Di Ludovico - Venezuela BArch, MUDD
I am working for a multidisciplinary design company with offices in Australia and Asia.
During our daily design tasks we emphasise the importance of urban design quality no
matter how small or large the design intervention. We deal with large and ambitious
projects, including new cities in China, through to more subtle design changes in urban
centres throughout Australia. The MUDD program has given me both an academic and
professional framework to undertake different challenges in the important task of shaping
cities and creating behavioural patterns in the urban environment.
Undergraduate Degrees
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