Chris Wilson is J. B. Jackson Professor of Cultural Landscape Studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of "The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional Tradition "(1997) and "Facing Southwest: The Life and Houses of John Gaw Meem "(2001). Paul Groth is Associate Professor in the Departments of Architecture and Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of "Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels in the United States "(1994) and the coeditor of "Understanding Ordinary Landscapes "(1997).