Advanced design studio course focusing on current or emerging topics in urban or urbanizing landscapes. The specific course topics vary slightly from year to year and between sections. Each studio is focused on the same set of learning objectives, but with different studio sites and focus. Each studio explores a site and local culture of a metropolitan area and involves brief travel to the studio site. In general, these studios will examine changing conditions due to industrial decline, technological advancement, climate change, etc. as experimental ground for studio investigations into new paradigms of landscape-based solutions to urban design/development, and infrastructure.prereq: MLA grad student