A new compendium of essays on the definition and significance of site, Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories, and Strategies (Eds. Carol J. Braun and Andrea Kahn; Routledge: 2005), includes entries by Professor of Architecture Robin Dripps, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Elizabeth Meyer and Associate Professor of Architecture and Chair of the Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, William Sherman. Dripps' essay, "Groundwork," seeks to establish a literal and metaphoric foundation for the discussion of site. Meyer's piece, "Site Citations: The Grounds of Modern Landscape Architecture," discusses the history of site in landscape architectural design. Sherman's afterword, "Engaging the Field," describes the many ways in which the fields of architecture and landscape architecture are finding new paths of collaboration through a shared exploration of site. Professor Dolores Hayden of Yale University has said of the book, "At last, an excellent book about sites that should be on the desk of every architecture, landscape architecture, and planning student in the U.S.A. Carol Burns and Andrea Kahn have gathered a distinguished group of authors to discuss the political, poetic, and visual dimensions of sites." A booksigning will be held on February 21, 2005 at the Van Alen Institute in New York, NY.