Matthew Gandy, a picture of a smiling man in glasses, wearing a grey shirt

Matthew Gandy

Official Fellow in Geography

Matthew Gandy is an urban, cultural, and environmental geographer and an award-winning documentary film maker.  He has published articles in many leading journals including IJURR, New Left Review, and Society and Space.  His books include Concrete and clay: reworking nature in New York City (MIT Press, 2002), The fabric of space: water, modernity, and the urban imagination (MIT Press, 2014), Moth (Reaktion, 2016), and Natura urbana: ecological constellations in urban space (MIT Press, 2022).  He is currently working on zoonotic aspects to urban epidemiology as part of a wider conceptual framing for the multi-species city.

"The zoonotic city: urban political ecology and the pandemic imaginary"
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2427.13080

Natura urbana: ecological constellations in urban space (MIT Press, 2022)
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262046282/natura-urbana/

"Attentive observation: walking, listening, staying put"
Annals of the American Association of Geographers
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24694452.2024.2353841