The studio introduces the basics of city-making and urban analysis in a set of design exercises. By means of didactic abstractions, the exercises isolate difference aspects of the city-ranging from infrastructure to signage - for scrutiny in a sequence of increasing complexity, culminating in a synthetic design project. The sequence also shifts the emphasis from issues of consolidation in traditional urban cores to dispersion in the post-metropolitan periphery, from city as physical structure to city as a system of communication. Attention is given to problems of representation particular to the complexity and dynamism of urban form and experience.