This second volume, of a 2 part series, continues the investigation into Shanghai's rapid urban development. This studio attempts to uncover signs of intrinsic collective memory and morphology as latent potentials within our increasingly complex contemporary urban fabric. In addition, the studio operates and aligns itself along an ideological discourse based upon notions of “landscape as metaphor”. Capable of responding to transformative behaviors, much like that of microorganisms, a redetermination of landscape urbanism methods allow for identifying innovative strategies of re-structuring our highly dense urban topography. (Foreword by Maria Perbellini, and Essays by Derek Hoeferlin and Joshua Nason)