Matthew Gandy
Matthew Gandy is a London based geographer and urbanist. He is Professor of Geography at University College London (UCL) and was Director of the UCL Urban Laboratory from 2005-11. His visiting appointments include Columbia University, New York; Humboldt University, Berlin; Technical University, Berlin; University of the Arts, Berlin, Newcastle University; and UCLA.
Education
- University College School, Cambridge University (BA 1988)
- London School of Economics (PhD 1992).
Career
His research on environmental history, urban infrastructure and visual culture has involved work in a variety of countries including France, Germany, Nigeria, India, the UK and the USA. In 2003 he was winner of the Spiro Kostof Prize of the Society of Architectural Historians for Concrete and clay: reworking nature in New York City as the book “within the last two years that has made the greatest contribution to our understanding of urbanism and its relationship with architecture”.[1] In 2005 he set up the UCL Urban Laboratory as an international and interdisciplinary centre for urban research and teaching [2] and in 2006 he was a founder of the London-wide Urban Salon.[3] In 2007 he produced and directed a documentary film, Liquid City (2007),[4] which explores the complexity of water politics in Bombay/Mumbai.
His current work explores three themes: urban metabolism (how cities function and the ecological dynamics of urban space); cyborg urbanization (how our bodies are connected to urban space); and cinematic landscapes (how cities and landscapes are represented in moving images).
He is also actively involved in local issues in Hackney, east London, writes regular reviews and commentaries for his blog Cosmopolis at http://www.matthewgandy.org, and is an urban field ecologist, specializing in entomology.[5]
Publications
He has over a hundred publications [6] in many international journals including Architectural Design, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, New Left Review and Society and Space. He is also author or editor of eight books.
Selected publications include:
- (2014) The Fabric of Space: water, modernity, and the urban imagination (MIT Press)
- (2014) The acoustic city (jovis) (co-edited with BJ Nilsen).
- (2013) 'Marginalia: aesthetics, ecology, and urban wastelands' Annals of the Association of the American Geographers 103 (6), pp. 1301-1316.
- (2013) ‘Entropy by design: Gilles Clément, Parc Henri Matisse and the limits to avant-garde urbanism’ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 37 (1), pp. 259–278.
- (2012) ‘Queer ecology: nature, sexuality and heterotopic alliances’ Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 30 pp. 727-747.
- (2012) ‘The melancholy observer: landscape, neo-romanticism and the politics of documentary film making,’ in Brad Praeger (ed.) Companion to Werner Herzog (Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell) pp. 528–546.
- (2011) ‘Landscape and infrastructure in the late-modern metropolis,’ in Watson, S. and Bridge, G. (eds.) The new Blackwell companion to the city (Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell) pp. 57–65.
- (2011) Urban Constellations (jovis).
- (2008) ‘Landscapes of disaster: water, poverty and urban fragmentation in Mumbai’ Environment and Planning A 40 (1), pp. 108–30.
- (2006) ‘Zones of indistinction: bio-political contestations in the urban arena’ Cultural Geographies 13 (4), pp. 497–516.
- (2006) ‘The cinematic void: the representation of desert space in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point’ in Martin Lefebvre (ed.) Landscape and film (London: Routledge) pp. 315–32.
- (2005) ‘Cyborg urbanization: complexity and monstrosity in the contemporary city’ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 29 (1), pp. 26–49.
- (2005) ‘Learning from Lagos’ New Left Review 33, pp. 37–53.
- (2004) 'Rethinking urban metabolism' City 8, 363-379.
- (2003) ‘Landscapes of deliquescence in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert’ Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 19 (2), pp. 218–37.
- (2003) The Return of the White Plague: Global Poverty and the 'New' Tuberculosis (Verso) (co-edited with Alimuddin Zumla).
- (2002) Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City (MIT Press).
See also
References
- ↑ http://sah.org/index.php?src=gendocs&ref=Kostof%20Winner%20History&category=Publication%20Awards
- ↑ http://www.thepolisblog.org/2012/04/city-as-constellation-conversation-with.html
- ↑ http://www.theurbansalon.org/
- ↑ http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0707/07071905
- ↑ http://www.thepolisblog.org/2012/04/city-as-constellation-conversation-with.html
- ↑ https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/research/publication/index?upi=MGAND76