This studio is intended to introduce some essential concepts and skills of urban design. This semester, our theoretical investigations, empirical research and design exercises will be organized around three studies (Sketches 1, 2, and 3) of various aspects of spatial and urban form over the first five weeks of the semester as well as two urban design assignments — one Rapid Design Project for a typical city block based on socialist-feminist concepts and a Final Design Project culminating in an urban design plan responding to high-density residential developments proposed by some in Toronto and beyond in response to the problem of housing affordability.