Matthew Gandy#
Photo: Claudia Höhne
| Membership Number: | 6403 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/gandyhttps://www.matthewgandy.orghttps://www.rethinkingurbannature.orghttps://www.naturaurbana.org |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8478-9808 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - date Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography, University of Cambridge
- 1997 - 2015 Lecturer, Reader and then Professor of Geography, University College London
- 1992 - 1997 Lecturer in Geography, School of European Studies, University of Sussex
Fields of Scholarship
- Critical landscape studies
- Visual methodologies
- Urban epidemiology
- Urban infrastructure
- Urban political ecology
- Urban biodiversity
Honours and Awards
- 2023 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize of the Foundation for Landscape Studies and the Center for Cultural Landscapes at the University of Virginia School of Architecture for Natura urbana: ecological constellations in urban space (MIT Press).
- 2020 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Louvain
- 2017 Deutscher Filmpreis Biodiversitat awarded by NaturVision film festival, Ludwigsburg for documentary Natura Urbana: The Brachen of Berlin (UK/Germany 2017)
- 2016 Elected Fellow, British Academy
- 2016 International Planning History Association award for 'the most innovative book in planning history' published in the previous two years for The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity, and the Urban Imagination (MIT Press)
- 2015 Elected Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences for 'internationally renowned interdisciplinary research in cultural, environmental and urban geography'
- 2014 American Association of Geographers Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography for The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity, and the Urban Imagination (MIT Press)
- 2014 European Research Council, Advanced Research Grant on 'Rethinking Urban Nature'
- 2003 Society of Architectural Historians, Spiro Kostof Award for Concrete and Clay: Reworking Urban Nature in New York (MIT Press)
