Matthew Gandy est Professeur de Géographie à l'Université de Cambridge, dont le travail explore la relation complexe entre l'urbanisation, l'environnement et l'expérience humaine. Il se concentre souvent sur la manière dont la nature et la société se remodèlent mutuellement dans les paysages urbains. Ses écrits plongent dans l'interaction complexe entre l'espace physique et les forces sociales, offrant des aperçus profonds sur la formation des villes modernes.
This work on contemporary environmental policy in developed economies looks at the recycling of re-usable materials within the municipal waste stream in the cities of London and Hamburg. The Hamburg material serves as a comparative case study to further the analysis of developments in the UK.
A study of water at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure in Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London.
An interdisciplinary account of the environmental history and changing landscape of New York City. In this innovative account of the urbanization of nature in New York City, Matthew Gandy explores how the raw materials of nature have been reworked to produce a "metropolitan nature" distinct from the forms of nature experienced by early settlers. The book traces five broad the expansion and redefinition of public space, the construction of landscaped highways, the creation of a modern water supply system, the radical environmental politics of the barrio in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the contemporary politics of the environmental justice movement. Drawing on political economy, environmental studies, social theory, cultural theory, and architecture, Gandy shows how New York's environmental history is bound up not only with the upstate landscapes that stretch beyond the city's political boundaries but also with more distant places that reflect the nation's colonial and imperial legacies. Using the shifting meaning of nature under urbanization as a framework, he looks at how modern nature has been produced through interrelated transformations ranging from new water technologies to changing fashions in landscape design. Throughout, he considers the economic and ideological forces that underlie phenomena as diverse as the location of parks and the social stigma of dirty neighborhoods.
"In Natura Urbana, Matthew Gandy explores the articulation of alternative, and in some cases, counterhegemonic sources of knowledge about urban nature produced by artists, writers, scientists, and other primarily curiosity-driven encounters, including voices seldom heard in environmental discourse"-- Provided by publisher
A cultural and natural history of the moth, which may seem drab compared to the butterfly, but which in fact has more species and brighter colouring than its day-flying cousin.
In noch nie dagewesenem Maß bestimmen Städte heute unser Leben: Mehr als die Hälfte der Weltbevölkerung lebt in Städten, Städte prägen Kultur und Politik, Städten formen die Beziehungen von Natur, Technologie und dem menschlichen Körper. Dieses Buch versammelt aktuelle internationale Positionen aus der Forschung zu Stadt, Urbanisierung und städtischer Kultur. Formal angelehnt an Benjamin, Kracauer und andere, nähern sich die Essays in kurzen Betrachtungen und Momentaufnahmen aus oft überraschenden Blickwinkeln der überbordenden Thematik – von Berlin bis Los Angeles, von Lagos bis Seoul. Die Bandbreite der behandelten Themen reicht dabei von neuen Formen der politischen Mobilisierung über die Auswirkungen wirtschaftlicher Instabilität bis zur politischen Ökologie der Stadtnatur. Künstlerische Beiträge begleiten die theoretischen Texte mit kritischen Reflexionen des urbanen Wandels. In der Gesamtschau entfaltet sich ein kaleidoskopartiges Bild von Stadt.