Cornell fielded five entries in 2007 Urban Land Institute Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition, which takes place each year over 10 days in January, just as students are returning from winter break. Now in its fifth year, the competition aims to strengthen the interdisciplinary ties between business, architecture, planning, and landscape architecture. Each team consists of five graduate students from at least three distinct disciplines, and draws upon their combined talents to produce schematic designs, redevelopment strategies, and financial analyses to solve a real-life urban design problem.