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Acknowledgments A publication of this size and scope is only possible through the collaborative efforts of many people. I would like to thank the marketing and editorial team at ABC-CLIO, namely Kaitlin Ciarmiello, Jane Glenn, Barbara Patterson, Erin Ryan, and, especially, Tessa Somberg, for her sustained efforts working with me to edit the many entries in this book. In addition to the texts written by me, there are sixty-two authors who have contributed entries, in some cases multiple entries, to these two volumes. Their expertise, skill, and patience have made this publica- tion a compelling resource for architectural and cultural history. I would also like to thank the scores of academics and architects around the world who played a part in finding these excellent contributing authors. I especially want to thank Zeynep Aktüre, Roselyn Campbell, Henry Colburn, and Alice Isabella Sullivan for their infallible efforts in suggesting additional authors and providing resources for the publication. Special acknowledgment and thanks go to Astrid Reed for her resourceful work on several entries as well as the glossary and selected bibliogra- phy sections. Christopher James Alexander’s contributions and insightful guid- ance were very important during multiple stages of the writing process. I am most grateful to my wife, Tracy Bonfitto, who contributed a number of informative entries, skillfully edited my essays and entries, discussed the shaping of the book’s content, and was a partner in the over two-year process of producing the two vol- umes you have before you.