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Urban Adaptations is an Integrated Studies course at Cornish College of the Arts. We are examining four neighborhoods in Seattle WA at different moments in the city's history, with a particular interest in how different cultures and different approaches to nature have shaped the landscape. Each of these neighborhoods has the multiply inscribed quality of the palimpsest... history has been written onto the landscape, then partially erased and re-written, a process that continues and requires human and non-human inhabitants to adapt to changing conditions.