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Selected Publications

Concrete and clay: reworking nature in New York City Concrete and clay: reworking nature in New York City.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002.
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 The return of the White Plague: global poverty and the 'new' tuberculosis The return of the White Plague: global poverty and the 'new' tuberculosis.
London and New York: Verso, 2003.
 Hydropolis: Wasser und die Stadt der Moderne. Frankfurt: Campus, 2006. Hydropolis: Wasser und die Stadt der Modene. Frankfurt: Campus, 2006
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 Urban constellations. Berlin: jovis, 2011


Essays
  • Gandy, M. “Where does the city end?” Architectural Design (in press)

  • Gandy, M. 'Queer ecology: nature, sexuality and heterotopic alliances' Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (in press)

  • Gandy, M. 'Entropy by design:  Gilles Clément, Parc Henri Matisse and the limits to avant-garde urbanism' International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (in press).

  • Gandy, M. ‘The melancholy observer: landscape, neo-romanticism and the politics of documentary film making,’ in Brad Praeger (ed.) Companion to Werner Herzog (Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2011) (in press).            

  • Gandy, M. 'The texture of space: desire and displacement in Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman of the dunes [Suna no onna],' in Douglas Richardson, Stephen Daniels, Dydia de Lyser and Nick Entrikin (eds.) Geography and the humanities (London and New York: Routledge, 2010) pp. 198-208.

  • Gandy, M. 'Landscape and infrastructure in the late-modern metropolis,' in Watson, S. and Bridge, G. (eds.) The new Blackwell companion to the city (Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2010) pp. 57-65.

  • Gandy, M. ‘Mannahatta and the limits to natural history’ Cartographica 45 (4) (2010), pp. 253-55.
  • Gandy, M. ‘Vicissitudes of urban nature: transitions and transformations at a global scale’ Radical History Review 107 (2010), pp. 178-84.
  • Gandy, M. ‘The ecological façades of Patrick Blanc’ Architectural Design 80 (3) (May/June 2010) pp. 28-33.
  • Gandy, M. ‘The persistence of complexity: re-reading Donna Haraway’s Cyborg manifesto’ AA Files 60 (2010) pp. 42-44.
  • Gandy, M. ‘Urban flux’ Architectural Design 79 (4) (September/October 2009) pp. 12-17.
  • Gandy, M.  "Starting points: Gilles Clement and the recuperation of space', New Geographies 1 (2009), 110-19. 
  • Gandy, M. "Above the treetops: nature, history and the limits to philosophical naturalism" Geoforum 39 (2) (2008), 561-69.
  • Gandy, M. "Landscapes of disaster: water, modernity and urban fragmentation in Mumbai" Environment and Planning A, 40 (2008), 108-40. [ PDF downlaod ]
  • Gandy, M. "The bacteriological city and its discontents" Historical Geography, 34 (2006), 14-25.
  • Gandy, M. "Riparian anomie: reflections on the Los Angeles River" Landscape Research, 31 (2) (2006), 135-45.
  • Gandy, M. “Zones of indistinction: some thoughts on the bio-politics of urban space” Cultural Geographies, 13 (4) (2006), 1-20.
  • Gandy, M. “The cinematic void: the representation of desert space in Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point ” in Martin Lefebvre, (ed.), Landscape and film (London: Routledge, 2006), pp. 315-32.
  • Gandy, M. "The drowned world: J. G. Ballard and the politics of catastrophe" Space and Culture 9 (1) (2006), pp. 86-88. [ PDF download ]
  • Gandy, M. "Planning, anti-planning and the infrastructure crisis facing metropolitan Lagos" Urban Studies 43 (2) (2006), pp. 371-96 [ PDF download ]
  • Gandy, M. "Urban nature and the ecological imaginary" in Erik Swyngedouw, Nik Heynan and Maria Kaïka (eds.), In the nature of cities: urban political ecology and the politics of urban metabolism (London: Routledge, 2006) pp. 63-74.
  • Gandy, M. “Learning from Lagos” New Left Review 33 (2005) 36-52.
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  • Gandy, M. “Cyborg urbanization: complexity and monstrosity in the contemporary city” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 29 (1) (2005) 26-49.
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  • Gandy, M. “Deadly alliances: death, disease and the global politics of public health” PLoS Medicine 2 (1) (2005) e4. [ PDF download ]
  • Gandy, M. “Rethinking urban metabolism: water, space and the modern city” City 8 (3) (2004), 371-87.
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  • Gandy, M. 2004 “Water, modernity and the emancipatory city” in Loretta Lees, ed., Emancipatory urbanism (London: Sage, 2004) pp. 179-91.
  • Gandy, M. “The making of metropolitan nature: a response to Heiman, Lake and Mitchell” Antipode 35 (5) (2003), 1022-28.
  • Gandy, M. “Landscapes of deliquescence in Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert ” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 28 (2) (2003), pp. 218-238.
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  • Gandy, M. “Allergy and allegory in Todd Haynes's <Safe>: an exploration of the ecological risks of late modernity” in Mark Shiel and Tony FitzMaurice (eds.) Screening the city (London and New York: Verso, 2003), pp. 239-261.
  • Gandy, M. “Between Borinquen and the barrio : radical political activism in the New York City Puerto Rican Community 1969-1972” Antipode 34 (4) (2002), pp. 730-761.
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  • Gandy, M. and Zumla, A. “The resurgence of disease: social and historical perspectives on the 'new' tuberculosis” Social Science and Medicine 55 (5) (2002), pp. 385-396.
  • Gandy, M. “Recycling the past: the dilemmas of ecological urbanism” in Mark Hewitt and Susannah Hagen (eds.) City fights: debates on urban sustainability (London: James and James, 2002) pp. 57-68.
  • Gandy, M. “The Paris sewers and the rationalization of urban space” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 24 (1) (1999), pp. 23-44.
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  • Gandy, M. “Rethinking the ecological leviathan: environmental regulation in an age of risk” Global Environmental Change 9 (1) (1999), pp. 59-69.
  • Gandy, M. “Contradictory modernities: conceptions of nature in the art of Joseph Beuys and Gerhard Richter” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 87 (4) (1997), pp. 636-659.
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  • Gandy, M. “The making of a regulatory crisis: the restructuring of New York City's water supply” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 22 (3) (1997), pp. 338-358.
  • Gandy, M. “Ecology, modernity and the intellectual legacy of the Frankfurt School” Philosophy and Geography 1: Space, Place and Environmental Ethics 1 (1997), pp. 231-255.
  • Gandy, M. “The heretical landscape of the body: Pier Paolo Pasolini and the scopic regime of European cinema” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 14 (3) (1996), pp. 293-310.
  • Gandy, M. “Crumbling land: the postmodernity debate and the analysis of environmental problems” Progress in Human Geography 20 (1) (1996), pp. 23-40.
  • Gandy, M. “Visions of darkness: the representation of nature in the films of Werner Herzog” Ecumene 3 (1) (1996), pp. 1-21.