Tim Waterman

Books

The Landscape of Utopia - cover

The Landscape of Utopia

Routledge, 2022.

The Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food - cover

The Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food

Co-edited with Joshua Zeunert. Routledge, 2018

Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture - cover

Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture

Second edition. Bloomsbury, 2015.

Basics Landscape Architecture: Urban Design - cover

Basics Landscape Architecture: Urban Design

With Ed Wall. AVA Publishing, 2010.

Landscape Citizenships - cover

Landscape Citizenships

Co-edited with Jane Wolff and Ed Wall. Routledge, 2021.

Landscape and Agency: Critical Essays - cover

Landscape and Agency: Critical Essays

Co-edited with Ed Wall. Routledge, 2017

Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture - cover

Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture

First edition. AVA Publishing, 2009.

Selected 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.

Posts

3 February, 2026

Open Access and Public Domain Imagery Online

Here is a list of excellent Internet sources for public domain/open access/copyleft images for art, architecture, and landscape. Remember that these images need to be referenced just the same as any copyrighted imagery. Many of these sites require registration or log in, and some mix open access images with images for which a fee must […]

1 January, 2026

New Year’s Resolutions for Universities

Here are a few resolutions for universities I posted before New Year 2026. They’re not perfect and they’re not comprehensive, and they don’t cover nearly as much ground as the wonderful Reclaiming Our University manifesto. They also fall short of utopianism, but they’re still far more radical than a lot of the tiny bandages being […]

29 November, 2025

Grace and the Poetics of Remediation

This piece was published in the 12th International Biennial of Landscape Architecture Barcelona Catalogue, and I will certainly be developing these themes and giving them the larger consideration they deserve in future.  Poetics is the theory of the structure and form of poetry. As a study, it is concerned with how poetry is made and […]