Selected publications
Books
- Author, Writing Landscape (in progress) Collected essays positioned within three decades of landscape design criticism.
- Author, Other Populations (in progress) Interdisciplinary analysis and speculation on designing with, and for, non-human animals—from the planetary to the object scales—both projecting forward and looking back at landscape practices.
- Editor and Author, Formerly Urban: Projecting Rust Belt Futures (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2013) Design projects, criticism and interdisciplinary speculation about remaking shrinking cities.
- Co-Editor and Author, Large Parks (with George Hargreaves), (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007) Case studies, large format photography, and textual analysis of large public parks as they intersect with topics in contemporary landscape architecture and urbanism.
- Editor, CASE: Downsview Park Toronto (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and New York: Prestel, 2001) Critical examination of contemporary issues in the urban landscape through competition schemes for Toronto, Ontario's largest public urban park.
Book chapters and Journal articles
- “Back to the Future,” in The Future Park & Beyond, ed. Wendy Walls & Jillian Wallis (Melbourne: University of Melbourne Press, 2021) 40-41
- “Appearance and (Aesthetic) Experience: The Ongoing Project of STOSS,” in Mise-en-Scène: The Lives and Afterlives of Urban Landscapes, ed. Chris Reed and Mike Belleme (San Francisco: ORO Editions, 2021), 229-252
- “Large Parks, Trends & Possibilities,” in Why Cities need Large Parks, ed. Richard Murray (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021) 412-427
- “Central Park and Landscape’s Ongoing Imaginary,” in ICONOCLAST, LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture 10 (2019): 128-136
- Guest Editor, Landscape Criticism Thematic issue of JoLA: The Journal of European Landscape Architecture 31 (Spring 2018) Editorial, “Thinking it, Doing it: Landscape Criticism’s Range and Agency,” 5-8
- “As-Built: Elevating Engagement Work,” in Third Coast Atlas: Prelude to a Plan, ed. Daniel Ibañez, Clare Lyster, Mason White and Charles Waldheim (Barcelona: Actar, 2017), 266-270
- “La Villette and Its Afterlife,” in The Companions to the History of Architecture, vol eds. David Leatherbarrow & Alexander Eisenschmidt (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2017), 621-634
- “Green Space as Public Space,” in Landscapes and Gardens, ed. George Hargreaves (Novato, CA: ORO Editions, 2015)
- “Liquid Assets: Landscape, Water and Urban Change,” in American City “X”: Syracuse after the Master Plan, ed. Mark Robbins et al. (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2014), 40-59
- “Landscape’s M.O.,” in Formerly Urban: Projecting Rust Belt Futures, ed. Julia Czerniak (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2013), 148-165
- “Critics on Criticism: Landscape Work,” in Harvard Design Magazine 36, special ed., Landscape Architecture’s Core? (Fall 2012): 145-149
- “Foregrounding,” in Landscape Infrastructure: Case Studies by SWA, (Basel: Birkhauser, 2010), 20–23
- “Accumulations,” in New Geographies 3, Urbanisms of Color (Fall 2010): 80-85
- “Agency by Design,” in George Hargreaves, Hargreaves: The Alchemy of Landscape Architecture (Point Reyes Station, CA: ORO Editions, 2009), 164–169
- “Urban Design Now: A Discussion,” in Urban Design, ed. Alex Krieger and William Saunders (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009), 291–325. Rpt. of Harvard Design Magazine 25 (Fall–Winter 2007): 19–35
- “Doing More with Less,” in Phoenix Urban Research Lab, Lab Report (Phoenix: ASU College of Design, 2008), 40–47
- “Introduction / Speculating on Size,” in Large Parks, ed. Julia Czerniak and George Hargreaves (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007), 6–31
- “Legibility and Resilience,” in Large Parks, ed. Julia Czerniak and George Hargreaves (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007), 214–251
- “Landscape’s Architectural Logics: The Eisenman / Olin Projects,” in Fertilizers: Olin Eisenman, ed. Claudia Gould (Philadelphia: Institute for Contemporary Art, 2006), 10–19
- “Appearance and Performance,” in CASE: Downsview Park Toronto, ed. Julia Czerniak (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and New York: Prestel, 2001), 12–23
- “Looking Back at Landscape Urbanism: Speculations on Site,” in The Landscape Urbanism Reader, ed. Charles Waldheim (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006), 105–123. Rprt. of Proceedings: 88th ACSA Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, 2000
- “Susceptible Bodies: The Absence of Distraction in Olmsted’s Central Park,” in Proceedings: ACSA Northeast Regional Conference, Buffalo, New York, 1996, 41-46
