Short-tailed Blue or Kurzschwänziger Bläuling (Cupido argiades) from the Spreewald biosphere reserve about 70 km south-east of Berlin on 31 August. A southern European species of wet meadows that has been expanding it range northwards over the last fifteen years of so.

Matthew Gandy has just published an essay on "Necropolitical atmospheres," inspired by the work of Indian artist and media theorist Pallavi Paul. See the new book "Postcolonial air and atmospheres," edited by Sarah Nuttall and Isabel Hofmeyr, just out from UCL Press: uclpress.co.uk/book/postcol...

Postcolonial Air and Atmospheres

This volume reopens and revitalises debates on the materialities of air and atmospheres, including practices of breathing, in a multitude of postcolonial and Southern hemispheric contexts. It probes t...

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In this new article Matthew Gandy suggests that the "urban imaginary" is a useful yet somewhat underexplored dimension to a series of disparate and often contradictory aspects to modernity and the conceptualization of alternative futures: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Urban imaginaries

In this article I consider the significance of the urban imaginary as a distinctive kind of cultural and political formation. I take the notion of the imaginary from an implicit singularity towards...

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In this critical intervention Matthew Gandy takes issue with institutional demands to record live teaching and the growing techno-managerial encroachment on shared spaces of learning: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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The recording of lectures has become increasingly widespread in UK universities. In this commentary I suggest that these developments are undermining the role of the classroom as a shared space of le...

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@sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social Matthew Gandy's new paper on eDNA in Nature Cities explores the prospects for a different kind of dialogue between the bio-physical and social sciences www.nature.com/articles/s44...

'Staged ecologies: Aesthetics, nature and infrastructure in the late-modern metropolis' @zuhrijames.bsky.social examines the relationship between urban nature and landscape design within a £1.5 billion regeneration project. Link to paper: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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This paper examines the relationship between urban nature and landscape design within a £1.5 billion regeneration project that is currently unfolding in Thamesmead, a town in south-east London. It de...

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Upcoming event - Cities and Multiple Nationalisms 📆 5.30-7.30pm, 24 April 2025 📍 Room 121-123, Devon House, 58 St Katharine's Way, Northeastern University London Join the Urban Salon in their discussion on different forms of nationalism and its impact on the political geographies of cities.

EVENT REMINDER: From wastelands to islands of waste Reminder to not miss the Urban Salon's next event THIS Monday! Promises to be an exciting exploration of marginal spaces in Tokyo and London. free tickets on eventbrite to reserve your space - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-waste...

Matthew Gandy will be talking about zoonotic urbanization at the event "Planetability: Ecologies of Health in a Planetary Age" next week in Berlin. 📆 31 January 2025 📍 TU Berlin Link to event: www.cud.tu-berlin.de/topics/plane...

Upcoming event - From wastelands to islands of waste: Journeys through marginal spaces in Tokyo and London 📆 6-7.30pm, 10 February 2025 📍 The Bartlett School of Planning Join the Urban Salon in their discussion on marginal spaces in Tokyo and London. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-waste...

@rkeil.bsky.social insightfully reviews Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space. You can read it here: www.ijurr.org/book_review/...

Matthew Gandy 2022: Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. - IJURR

I once ran into Matthew Gandy as he observed a small insect on the pavement of an American city. He ‘interacted’ with this form of urban nature with curiosity and care. I have known Matthew and his wo...

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