We investigate the impact of environment on galaxy evolution exploiting diverse scaling relations for different samples at important cosmological epochs. At the peak of cluster mass assembly around z=0.5 the mass-size relation reveals differences to the field population are driven by transition objects between spheroids and disks. The mass-metallicity relation in phase space displays a higher metallicity enrichment for accreted galaxies compared to infalling ones
demonstrating the shut-down of cosmic flows due to strangulation by the intra-cluster medium. Approaching the onset of cluster assembly at z=1.4 kinematic studies point at competing interaction processes affecting the star formation in galaxies at these early stages. All in all, we see that the cluster environment changes the hierarchical evolution of galaxies in different ways at the epochs probed that can be contrasted to detailed cosmological simulations.