FIGURE 3.8 A Modest Proposal proposes a muscular metropolitan reforestation strategy, which functions as both an interim landscape regime as well as a longer-term urban structure. The project leverages the surplus of cleared and irrigated land present in the incomplete settlements surrounding Madrid in order to implement a grassroots initiative that would reintroduce a tree canopy and understory to the Madrid region that has not been seen for centuries. (Courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania The City That Never Was studio.)