KENNETH I. HELPHAND, FASLA, is professor emeritus of landscape architecture at the University of Oregon, where he has taught courses in landscape history, theory, and design since 1974. He is the author of Colorado: Visions of an American Landscape, Yard Street Park: The Design of Suburban Open Space (with Cynthia Girling), Dreaming Gardens: Landscape Architecture and the Making of Modern Israel, and Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime. An honorary member of the Israel Association of Landscape Architects, Helphand is a former editor of Landscape Journal and chair of the Senior Fellows at Dumbarton Oaks.