This is a project-based seminar that focuses on applied climate research, examining in detail and through text and drawings the climate changes that are impacting a densified urban center. The work will focus on uncovering current and impending climate threats; how these threats may have been amplified by current urban development; pre-development conditions, ecologies and cultures that might point toward more holistic, multi-species approaches to human habitation; and speculations on a range of tactics that could allow for ways to live with and adapt to ongoing and projected changes in the environment.