John Dixon Hunt is Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape, University of Pennsylvania, USA. David Leatherbarrow is Emeritus Professor Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
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Introduction. Ancient and Mediaeval, including Scipio & Polybius, Pliny the Younger, Theoderich on Jerusalem and Petrarch on Rome. The Renaissance, including Edmund Spenser, John Webster, Inigo Jones, and Gianlorenzo Bernini. The 18th century, including Thomas Burnet, John Vanbrugh, Daniel Defoe on Travelers in Great Britain, Alexander Pope William Kent, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal, Denis Diderot, J. W. von Goethe, Humphry Repton, and John Soane. The 19th Century, including William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Victor Hugo, John Ruskin, Viollet le Duc, William Morris and Thomas Hardy. Modern & Contemporary, including Le Corbusier, John Piper, Louis I. Kahn, Robert Smithson, Aldo Rossi, Carlo Scarpa, David Chipperfield and The High Line.