A collection of short interludes, think pieces, and critical essays on landscape, utopia, philosophy, culture, and food, all written in a highly original style by Tim Waterman. Exploring power and democracy, the book provides a much-needed critical approach to landscape imaginaries.
A collection of short interludes, think pieces, and critical essays on landscape, utopia, philosophy, culture, and food, all written in a highly original and engaging style by academic and theorist Tim Waterman.
Exploring power and democracy, and their shaping of public space and public life, taste, etiquette, belief and ritual, and foodways in community and civic life, the book provides a much-needed critical approach to landscape imaginaries. It discusses landscape in its broadest sense, as a descriptor of the relationship between people and place that occurs everywhere on land, from cities to countryside, suburb to wilderness.
With over fifty black and white illustrations interspersing the twenty-six chapters, this is a book for professionals, academics, and students to dive into and spark discussion on new modes of thinking in the wake of unfolding global crises, such as COVID-19, climate change, fascism 2.0, and beyond.
Foreword by Tom Moylan Preface: The Landscape(s) of Utopia(s)
1.
Introduction: Taste, Democracy, and Everyday Life in Landscape Imaginaries
2.
Thailand, Highland, and Secret Island: Landscape and Power in Bond Films
3. A
Word... Blang
4. The Flavour of the Place: Eating and Drinking in
Pajottenland
5. The Global Cucumber: on the Milan Expo 2015
6. A Word...
Theatre
7. Feasting is a Project
8. At Liberty: The Place de la République
9. A Word... Profession
10. Situating the Digital Commons: A Conversation
with Ruth Catlow
11. Dining at a Distance: Performing the Commons Across
Space and Time (with Ruth Catlow)
12. On Astronauts, LSD, and Landscape
Architecture
13. A Word... Vast
14. Making Meaning: Minds, Bodies, and
Media in Architectural Design
15. Other Strangers Paths
16. Democracy and
Trespass
17. A Word... Habitat
18. Its About Time: The Genius Temporum of
Martķ Franchs Girona Landscapes
19. Despot, Martyr, and Fool: An Obituary
for the Garden Bridge
20. Notes from the First Days of Londons Lockdown
21.
During and After the Pandemic Our Streets Need More Democracy
22. A Word...
Inevitable
23. Two London Squares and a Theory of the Beige Hole
24. A
Word... Storytelling
25. National Progress
26. The Tasty City: Democratic
Life and the Fulfilment of Desire
Tim Waterman is Associate Professor of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, UK. His research explores the interconnections between food, taste, place, and democratic civil society. His research addresses imaginaries: moral, political, social, ecological, radical, and utopian.
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