Essays

Waterman, Tim (Forthcoming 2027) “Utopia, Equality, Luxury: Cockaigne in Ohio” LA+: Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture, issue 25, “Utopia”.

Waterman, Tim (Forthcoming 2027) “Foreword: The Impossible University” in Ewa Majewska, Censoring Academia. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Matson, Zannah and Tim Waterman (Forthcoming 2026) “Landscapes of Care, Landscapes Through Care” Landscape Research.

Liboiron, Max and Tim Waterman (Forthcoming 2026) “Theorizing While Queer: A Conversation about Stories, Chores, Land, and Growing Up Queer” InterAlia Journal.

Waterman, Tim (Forthcoming 2026) “Towards a Social Ecology of Landscape” in Taktyk, Guardians of Water: Designing Landscapes of Flow, Resistance, Collective Practice, and Shared Presence. Berlin: Jovis.

Waterman, Tim (2026) “Everything is in Everything: Panecastic Method and Border Pedagogy in the Architectures” in Mitesh Dixit, Fedah Taqi, and James Westcott, Eds. Pedagogies for Anti-disciplinary Design Education. London and New York: Routledge.

Waterman, Tim (2026) “Touching Buildings” Scroope Cambridge Architecture Journal No. 34.

Waterman, Tim (Forthcoming 2026) “Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown: Entangled Futurities” Book review of Heather Alberro et al. Utopian Studies.

Waterman, Tim (2025) “Grace and the Poetics of Remediation” Jordí Bellmunt Chiva, Marina Cervera Alonso de Medina, and Manuel Ruisánchez Capelastagui, Eds. The Poetics of Remediation. Paysage Editore, 18-19.

Waterman, Tim (2025) “The Timespace of Queer Ecology” Ri-Vista 22(2), 38-45.

Waterman, Tim (2024) “Wild Abandon: A New Park in Dublin is a Case Study in Inspired Reuse of Materials” Landscape Architecture Magazine, July 2024 Vol. 114 No. 7. Washington, D.C.: The American Society of Landscape Architects, 64-83.

Waterman, Tim (2024) “Planting for a better future: Olivia Laing’s Garden Against Time” Recessed Space.

Waterman, Tim (2023) “Dear Earth: Shining Artificial Light on the Climate Crisis” Recessed Space.

Waterman, Tim (2022) “The Last Floriade?” Landscape Architecture Magazine, August 2022 Vol. 112 No. 8. Washington, DC: The American Society of Landscape Architects, 120-131.

Waterman, Tim (2022) “Wayfaring, but Stranger” Landscape Architecture Magazine, June 2022 Vol. 112 No. 6. Washington, DC: The American Society of Landscape Architects, 42-48.

Waterman, Tim, with Eglé Pačkauskaite (2021) “Avuncular Architectures: Queer Futurity and Life Economies” In Waterman, Tim, Ed Wall, and Jane Wolff, Eds. Landscape Citizenships. London and New York: Routledge, 79–108.

Waterman, Tim (2021) “Duas praças de Londres e a Teoria do Buraco Bege: como arquitetos paisagistas criativos e prudentes podem estar presos na armadilha da produção de não-lugares através de empreendimentos” in Antonio Colchete, Frederico Braida, Klaus Chaves Alberto, Gustavo Abdalla, and Mariane Garcia Unanue, Eds. Essays on the Design of the Built Environment. Juiz de Fora, Brazil: Editora UFJF (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora).

Waterman, Tim (2020) “During and After the Pandemic Our Streets Need More Democracy” On the Landscape Research Group blog.

Waterman, Tim (2020) “In Public: London” on the ominous first days of the COVID-19 lockdown. On the LAM blog.

Waterman, Tim (2020) “Time Portals, Love Machines, Land Oracles: Hybrid Geography and the Situated Digital” in AD ‘The Landscapists’, edited by Ed Wall.

Waterman, Tim (2019) “Other Stranger’s Paths: in homage to John Brinckerhoff Jackson” In JoCA 04.

Kent Mathewson, Tom Mels, Theano S. Terkenli, Tim Waterman, Claudio Minca, Michael Jones & Kenneth R. Olwig (2019) “The Meanings of Landscape: Essays on Place, Space, Environment and Justice” The AAG Review of Books, 7:4, 291–304.

Waterman, Tim (2018) “Feasting is a Project” in University of Plymouth, Imagining Alternatives.

Waterman, Tim (2018) “Living in Your Landscape” Talking Point column in Garden Design Journal.

Waterman, Tim (2018) “Two London Squares and a Theory of the Beige Hole” in Landscape Architecture Magazine.

Waterman, Tim (2018) “National Progress” in the Bartlett School of Architecture Unit Eleven publication for 2018.

Waterman, Tim (2018) “Democracy and Trespass: Political Dimensions of Landscape Access” In Egoz, Shelley, Deni Ruggeri and Karsten Jørgensen, Eds. Defining Landscape Democracy: Perspectives on Spatial Justice. London: Edward Elgar.

Waterman, Tim (2018) “Introducing Hope: Landscape Architecture and Utopian Pedagogy” In Jørgensen, Karsten, Richard Stiles, Elke Mertens, and Nilgül Karadenyz, Eds. Routledge Handbook of Teaching Landscape. London and New York: Routledge.

Waterman, Tim (2018) “Taste, Foodways, and Everyday Life” in Zeunert, Joshua and Tim Waterman, eds. Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food.

Waterman, Tim (2018) “Introduction” in Zeunert, Joshua and Tim Waterman, eds. Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food.

Waterman, Tim (2018) “Thailand, Highland, and Secret Island: Landscape and Power in Bond Films” in Strong, Jeremy, ed. Bond Uncovered. Palgrave Macmillan.

Waterman, Tim (2017) “Making Meaning: Minds, Bodies, and Media in Architectural Education” in Imaginaries of the Future 01: Bodies and Locations, special issue, Open Library of the Humanities.

Waterman, Tim (2017) “Beyond the Ornamental: Agriculture and the City” (interview with Tim Waterman) Foreground, Autumn 2017.

Waterman, Tim (2017) “Publicity and Propriety: Democracy and Manners in Britain’s Public Landscape” In Wall, Ed, and Tim Waterman, Eds. Landscape and Agency: Critical Essays. Routledge.

Waterman, Tim (2017) “Introduction: Critical Concerns of Landscape” in Wall, Ed, and Tim Waterman, eds. Landscape and Agency: Critical Essays, Routledge.

Waterman, Tim (2017) “What’s in a Name? In Britain, Anglo-Saxon Place-names Hold Hydrological Clues” Article on the Flood and Flow project, in Landscape Architecture Magazine.

Waterman, Tim (2017) “Despot, Martyr, and Fool” An obituary for the Garden Bridge. Landscape Architecture Magazine website.

Waterman, Tim (2017) “It’s About Time” Article on genius temporum in the Girona landscapes of Martí Franch of EMF, in Landscape Architecture Magazine.

Waterman, Tim (2016) “Other Stranger’s Paths” In the journal Testing Ground.

Waterman, Tim (2016) “Dining at a Distance: Performing the Commons Across Time and Space” co-authored with Ruth Catlow. In the online journal P-E-R-F-O-R-M-A-N-C-E.

Waterman, Tim (2016) “There’s Room” Article on the Room for the River project in Holland, in Landscape Architecture Magazine.

Waterman, Tim (2015) “Situating the Digital Commons: A Conversation Between Tim Waterman and Ruth Catlow” Furtherfield.

Waterman, Tim (2015) “Keep It Up” On Atelier Dreiseitl’s work with water at two parks in Oslo — Hølaløkka and Nansen Park, in Landscape Architecture Magazine.

Waterman, Tim (2015) “Community Effort” on West 8’s work on Máximapark in Utrecht, Landscape: the journal of the Landscape Institute, reprinted from Landscape Architecture Magazine with new photography by Johan de Boer.

Waterman, Tim (2015) “Nathaniel Coleman – Lefebvre for Architects” (Review) Utopian Studies: The Journal for the Society for Utopian Studies Vol. 26 No. 2.

Waterman, Tim (2015) “The Global Cucumber” on the discordant realities of the Milan Expo, Landscape Architecture Magazine.

Waterman, Tim (2015) “Henri Lefebvre – Critique of Everyday Life, Vols 1, 2, and 3” (Review) Journal of Architecture.

Waterman, Tim (2015) “Trees for Tokyo” on the work of the landscape architecture practice Studio on Site, Landscape Architecture Magazine.

Waterman, Tim (2015) “Power Up” Book Review of Dirk Sijmons Landscape and Energy in Landscape Architecture Magazine.

Waterman, Tim (2014) “Publicity and Propriety: Democratic Etiquette in the Public Landscape” Proceedings of UNISCAPE (EU) Careggi Seminar.

Waterman, Tim (2014) “Talking Point” Garden Design Journal.

Waterman, Tim (2014) “Circular Logic: Birmingham’s Paradise Circus” In Landscape Architecture Magazine.

Waterman, Tim (2014) “Pedestrian Etiquette, Gormless Phone Users, and the Rise of the Meanderthal” on The Conversation UK.

Waterman, Tim (2014) “Common Wealth” on West 8’s work on Máximapark in Utrecht, Landscape Architecture Magazine.

Waterman, Tim (2014) “At Liberty” on TVK, Martha Schwartz Partners, and Areal’s work on the Place de la République, Paris, Landscape Architecture Magazine.

Waterman, Tim (2013) “A Landscape Conversation: Design, Representation, Process” with Ed Wall. Published in the book Doñana: Out of the City at the Politecnico di Milano, 2013, and in the journal Urban, Mar/Aug 2013.

Waterman, Tim (2011) “The Flavor of the Place: Eating and Drinking in Payottenland” in Strong, Jeremy, ed. Educated Tastes: Food, Drink and Connoisseur Culture, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

Waterman, Tim (2011) “A Question of Taste” on understanding and working with taste in landscape design, in Landscape: the journal of the Landscape Institute.

Waterman, Tim (2011) “Land Ho!” on landscape as viewed from the water, in Landscape: the journal of the Landscape Institute.

Waterman, Tim (2010) “Exploring the Landscape of Urban Design” on the place of the landscape architect in the work of urban design, in Landscape: the journal of the Landscape Institute.

Waterman, Tim (2014) “Theatre” “A Word” column, Landscape: the journal of the Landscape Institute.

Waterman, Tim (2013) “Habitat” “A Word” column, Landscape: the journal of the Landscape Institute.

Waterman, Tim (2013) “Customer” “A Word” column, Landscape: the journal of the Landscape Institute.

Waterman, Tim (2013) “Crowdsourcing” “A Word” column, Landscape: the journal of the Landscape Institute.

Waterman, Tim (2013) “Greenspace” “A Word” column, Landscape: the journal of the Landscape Institute.

Waterman, Tim (2012) “Hippocampus” “A Word” column, Landscape: the journal of the Landscape Institute.

Waterman, Tim (2012) “Source” “A Word” column, Landscape: the journal of the Landscape Institute.

Waterman, Tim (2012) “Scope” “A Word” column, Landscape: the journal of the Landscape Institute.

Waterman, Tim (2012) “Cinematographic” “A Word” column, Landscape: the journal of the Landscape Institute.

Waterman, Tim (2011) “Paving” “A Word” column, Landscape: the journal of the Landscape Institute.

Waterman, Tim (2011) “Vast” “A Word” column, Landscape: the journal of the Landscape Institute.

Waterman, Tim (2011) “Material” “A Word” column, Landscape: the journal of the Landscape Institute.

Waterman, Tim (2011) “Cynicism” “A Word” column, Landscape: the journal of the Landscape Institute.