John Dixon Hunt is an Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape at the University of Pennsylvania. He edits the journal, STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES, edits the Penn Studies in Landscape Architetcure in which 27 volumes have so far appeared, and in the author, among ober a dozen books, of THE AFTERLIFE OF GARDENS, NATURE OVER AGAIN. THE ART OF IAN HAMILTON FINLAY, and THE VENETIAN CITY GARDEN.PLACE,TYPOLOGY,& PERCEPTION, which has just been awarded the J.B.Jackson Prize by the Foundation for Landscape Studies.