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Author:   Tim Waterman (The Bartlett School of Architeture, University College London, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.360kg
ISBN:  

9780367759155

ISBN 10:   0367759152
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   28 February 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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 Stranger’s Paths 16. Democracy and Trespass 17. A Word... ‘Habitat’ 18. It’s About Time: The Genius Temporum of Martí Franch’s Girona Landscapes 19. Despot, Martyr, and Fool: An Obituary for the Garden Bridge 20. Notes from the First Days of London’s 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

Reviews

This collection, like all Tim Waterman's work, is a delight. He combines reflections on the relationship between place, space and social process with a drive towards imagining better lives and the conditions that might generate them - thus towards utopia. The varied pieces, written with elegance and grace, are thought-provoking, engaging and at times deeply moving. - Ruth Levitas, author, Utopia as Method, Professor Emerita, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, UK The Landscape of Utopia delivers a rich new contribution to utopian theory and lively reflections and meditations on what it means to think and practice better ways of living and being in very particular places. Tim finds utopian promise and provocation in practice and imagination; what is and what might be; the ordinary and the fantastic. With its extensive range of reference, sociological curiosity, agile thinking and inviting prose, the book returns us refreshed to familiar landscapes and invites us to keep hold of transgressive hope for changing them. - Lisa Garforth, author, Green Utopias, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Newcastle University, UK Intelligent and perceptive, Waterman draws on local stories from a wide range of places and times, weaving the narrative in and out of the subject, landscape, with insight and humour. The book is timely because it comes at a point when the discourse on 'landscape' is expanding, gaining interest by scholars and professionals across disciplines to address global concerns, climate change, cultural heritage, food security and issues of identity. Many of these concerns are addressed in the 26 chapters, some a single paragraph and others several pages, a statement, a reflection and food for thought. Waterman keeps his citation to a minimum, introducing key landscape scholars in an offhand manner to pique the reader and avoid the 'stuffiness' of academic writing. The fresh narrative of 'landscape' will be of interest to non-academics, architects and landscape architects, anyone interested in the environment, culture and shifting world politics and how they affect popular taste and ordinary citizens. - Jala Makhzoumi, editor of The Right to Landscape, Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture, American University of Beirut, President, Lebanese Landscape Association, Lebanon

"""This collection, like all Tim Waterman's work, is a delight. He combines reflections on the relationship between place, space and social process with a drive towards imagining better lives and the conditions that might generate them - thus towards utopia. The varied pieces, written with elegance and grace, are thought-provoking, engaging and at times deeply moving."" – Ruth Levitas, author, Utopia as Method, Professor Emerita, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, UK ""The Landscape of Utopia delivers a rich new contribution to utopian theory and lively reflections and meditations on what it means to think and practice better ways of living and being in very particular places. Tim finds utopian promise and provocation in practice and imagination; what is and what might be; the ordinary and the fantastic. With its extensive range of reference, sociological curiosity, agile thinking and inviting prose, the book returns us refreshed to familiar landscapes and invites us to keep hold of transgressive hope for changing them."" – Lisa Garforth, author, Green Utopias, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Newcastle University, UK ""Intelligent and perceptive, Waterman draws on local stories from a wide range of places and times, weaving the narrative in and out of the subject, landscape, with insight and humour. The book is timely because it comes at a point when the discourse on ‘landscape’ is expanding, gaining interest by scholars and professionals across disciplines to address global concerns, climate change, cultural heritage, food security and issues of identity. Many of these concerns are addressed in the 26 chapters, some a single paragraph and others several pages, a statement, a reflection and food for thought. Waterman keeps his citation to a minimum, introducing key landscape scholars in an offhand manner to pique the reader and avoid the ‘stuffiness’ of academic writing. The fresh narrative of ‘landscape’ will be of interest to non-academics, architects and landscape architects, anyone interested in the environment, culture and shifting world politics and how they affect popular taste and ordinary citizens."" – Jala Makhzoumi, editor of The Right to Landscape, Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture, American University of Beirut, President, Lebanese Landscape Association, Lebanon"

This collection, like all Tim Waterman's work, is a delight. He combines reflections on the relationship between place, space and social process with a drive towards imagining better lives and the conditions that might generate them - thus towards utopia. The varied pieces, written with elegance and grace, are thought-provoking, engaging and at times deeply moving. - Ruth Levitas, Professor Emerita, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, UK The Landscape of Utopia delivers a rich new contribution to utopian theory and lively reflections and meditations on what it means to think and practice better ways of living and being in very particular places. Tim finds utopian promise and provocation in practice and imagination; what is and what might be; the ordinary and the fantastic. With its extensive range of reference, sociological curiosity, agile thinking and inviting prose, the book returns us refreshed to familiar landscapes and invites us to keep hold of transgressive hope for changing them. - Lisa Garforth, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Newcastle University, UK Intelligent and perceptive, Waterman draws on tangible local stories from places and times, weaving the narrative in and out of the subject, landscape, reflectively and with humor. He keeps his citation to a minimum, introducing key landscape scholars in an offhand manner to pique the reader. and more generally. I have always admired Waterman's academic work, this volume however is different because it avoids the 'stuffiness' of academic writing. Rather, the narrative provides a fresh rendering of 'landscape' that will be of interest to non-academics, architects and landscape architects, anyone interested in the environment, culture and shifting world politics and how they affect popular taste and ordinary citizens. The book is timely because it comes at a point when the discourse on 'landscape' is expanding, gaining interest by scholars and professionals across disciplinary boundaries. The International Federation of Landscape Architecture (IFLA) tasked select members, myself included, to review the outdated definition of the profession by the ILO with the aim of aligning the definition with global concerns, climate change, cultural heritage, food security and issues of identity. Many of these concerns are addressed in this volume. The narrative moves from the global concerns, the 'World as Habitat' (chapters 12 and 13), to discourse local specificities, controversy surrounding the 'Garden Bridge' project in London (chapter 19). The topics discussed are timeless, for example the idea of the 'commons', projecting the concept into the present away from the historic focus on resources to include the world wide web as commons. This ties in with 'tress passing', rights and democracy (chapters 16). The landscape discourse of design as contrived geometry to responsive and efficient management of resources in Catalonia (Chapter 18), the landscape concept of the international fairgrounds in Milan (Chapter 5) and the landscapes of the Place de la Republic, design intentions and the lived space (chapter 8). Each of the 26 chapters, some a single paragraph and others several pages, is a statement, a reflection and food for thought. Above all, the engaging narrative, short vignettes and diversity of topics ensure that Waterman's book is a successful introduction to 'landscape' in general, specifically in countries of the global south, to clear prevailing misconceptions of landscape as 'beautiful scenery' and a limited understanding of the scope of landscape architecture as urban beautification. - Jala Makhzoumi, Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture, American University of Beirut, President, Lebanese Landscape Association, Lebanon

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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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