Background
Matthew Gandy was born on May 4, 1965, in Islington, North London, United Kingdom.
Matthew Gandy.
The Old Schools, Trinity Ln, Cambridge CB2 1TN, United Kingdom
Matthew Gandy studied at the University of Cambridge.
Houghton St, Holborn, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom
In 1992 Gandy received a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the London School of Economics.
Matthew Gandy.
Matthew Gandy.
Matthew Gandy preparing for his lecture.
Matthew Gandy.
2017
Matthew Gandy receiving his award for Best German Biodiversity Film during the NaturVision Film Festival in 2017.
2017
Matthew Gandy receiving his award for Best German Biodiversity Film during the NaturVision Film Festival in 2017.
The Old Schools, Trinity Ln, Cambridge CB2 1TN, United Kingdom
Matthew Gandy studied at the University of Cambridge.
Houghton St, Holborn, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom
In 1992 Gandy received a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the London School of Economics.
Matthew Gandy.
Matthew Gandy.
Matthew Gandy.
Matthew Gandy preparing for his lecture.
Tiffany Kaewen Dang is a landscape architect and territorial scholar supervised by Dr. Gandy.
(The affluence of western society has given rise to unprec...)
The affluence of western society has given rise to unprecedented quantities of waste, presenting one of the most intractable environmental problems for contemporary society. This book examines recycling and municipal waste management in three major cities: London, New York, and Hamburg. A range of political and economic issues are examined to illustrate how any reduction in the size of the waste stream in order to achieve more equitable and environmentally sustainable patterns of resource use is incompatible with the current emphasis in the use of the market for environmental protection. The case studies show how, contrary to the hopes of many environmentalists and policymakers, municipal waste management is moving steadily towards the profitable option of incineration with energy recovery, rather than the recycling of materials or waste reduction at source. The evidence suggests that the achievement of a more sustainable pattern of recycling and waste management policy would demand a fundamental change in public policy, to give the government a more active role in environmental protection.
https://www.amazon.com/Recycling-Politics-Urban-Waste-Matthew-ebook/dp/B00KQOAANM
1994
(An interdisciplinary account of the environmental history...)
An interdisciplinary account of the environmental history and changing landscape of New York City.
https://www.amazon.com/Concrete-Clay-Reworking-Industrial-Environments/dp/0262572168
2002
(A study of water at the intersection of landscape and inf...)
A study of water at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure in Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London.
https://www.amazon.com/Fabric-Space-Water-Modernity-Imagination/dp/0262533723
2017
Matthew Gandy was born on May 4, 1965, in Islington, North London, United Kingdom.
Matthew Gandy studied at the University of Cambridge. In 1988 he earned a bachelor's degree. Later, in 1992, Gandy received a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the London School of Economics.
Matthew Gandy is a geography professor who has special interests in urban environmental problems, philosophies, and politics. When Gandy received a Ph.D., he started his academic career at the University of Sussex as a lecturer in geography. In 1997, he went to teach geography at University College London. Later, Dr. Gandy became founder and director of the UCL Urban Laboratory and a co-founder of the Urban Salon. In 2015 Matthew joined the University of Cambridge where he is also a fellow of King’s College.
In addition to it, Matthew has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York, the University of California in Los Angeles, Newcastle University, the Technical University, the Humboldt University, and the University of the Arts in Berlin.
From 2013 to 2018 Gandy was co-editor of The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
In 1994, the professor published his first book Recycling and the Politics of Urban Waste. In the work, he asks the question of what to do with the enormous amount of waste that confronts urban dwellers. He examines this question by researching the historical recycling attempts in three major cities: London, New York, and Hamburg. Gandy maintains that recycling and waste management must be looked at in a political context and the state plays a crucial role in helping to shift citizens’ behavior and practice.
Gandy's second book also has a major environmental theme coupled with his knowledge of urban issues. Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City is an environmental history of this major American city, focusing on how nature has been revised to create a modem "metropolitan nature." The book is divided into five specific sections: creating an effective water supply system, redefining the issue of public space, the development of landscaped highways, the transformation that environmental politics had on the Latino sections of the city in the 1960s and 1970s, and the present-day environmental movement.
One more book, The fabric of space: water, modernity, and the urban imagination, was released in 2014. Matthew Gandy is currently writing a research monograph on bio-diversity and urban nature and is Principal Investigator for the ERC Advanced Grant Rethinking urban nature.
Gandy's book Concrete and clay: reworking nature in New York City was the winner of the 2003 Spiro Kostof award for the book within the previous two years "that has made the greatest contribution to our understanding of urbanism and its relationship with architecture." His book The fabric of space: water, modernity, and the urban imagination was awarded the 2014 AAG Meridian Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography and the 2016 award for the most innovative book in planning history from the International Planning History Society.
In 2020 Matthew Gandy was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Louvain. His work has been translated into several other languages including French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.
(The affluence of western society has given rise to unprec...)
1994(A study of water at the intersection of landscape and inf...)
2017(An interdisciplinary account of the environmental history...)
2002While studying geography at university, Matthew Gandy carried out a study of urban politics in Islington since the late 1950s. There was a profound dissolution of working-class voters with the traditional party of the Left, the Labour Party, producing a much more volatile pattern of political identification in its wake, combined with growing levels of abstention and non-registration. The idea of politics as a force for progressive social change had become seriously denuded.
In 1984, Gandy joined the Labour Party, partly inspired by the radical agenda of the Greater London Council before its abolition in 1986. Today, he continues to support them as the pivotal vehicle for changing British society.
