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...

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...

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...

Environmental DNA and associated techniques are transforming urban ecology and its conception of cities. Matthew Gandy argues for leveraging such ‘forensic ecologies’ for a post-positivist conceptual ...

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...

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...