Matthew Gandy

A study of urban nature that draws together different strands of urban ecology as well as insights derived from feminist, posthuman, and postcolonial thought.Postindustrial transitions and changing cultures of nature have produced an unprecedented degree of fascination with urban biodiversity. The “other nature” that flourishes in marginal urban spaces, at one remove from the controlled contours of metropolitan nature, is not the poor relation of rural flora and fauna. Indeed, these islands of biodiversity underline the porosity of the distinction between urban and rural. In Natura Urbana, Matthew Gandy explores urban nature as a multilayered material and symbolic entity, through the lens of urban ecology and the parallel study of diverse cultures of nature at a global scale. Gandy examines the articulation of alternative, and in some cases, counterhegemonic, sources of knowledge about urban nature produced by artists, writers, scientists, as well as curious citizens, including voice

Roadside 'weeds' and other routinely overlooked aspects of urban nature provide a fascinating glimpse into the complex global ecologies and new cultures of nature emerging across the world. This uniqu

Water lies at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure, crossing between visible and invisible domains of urban space, in the tanks and buckets of the global South and the vast subterranean te

Unlike their gaudy day-flying cousins, moths seem to reside in the shadows as denizens of the night, circling around street lights or caught momentarily in the glare of headlights on a country lane. A

Water lies at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure, crossing betweenvisible and invisible domains of urban space, in the tanks and buckets of the global South and thevast subterranean tech

In this account of the urbanization of nature in New York City, Matthew Gandy explores how the raw materials of nature have been reworked to produce a "metropolitan nature" distinct from the forms of

Co-winner of the 2003 Spiro Kostof Award presented by the Society of Architectural Historians In this innovative account of the urbanization of nature in New York City, Matthew Gandy explores how the

Discovering the sounds of the city - includes a free CD. How does sound shape urban life? What do soundscapes reveal about the experience of modernity? This innovative essay collection explores a ser

The dramatic increase since the 1980s in the global prevalence of tuberculosis, a disease destined as recently as thirty years ago for complete eradication, is a story of medical failure. A pandemic

The city has long been an important location for filmmakers. Visually compelling and always modern, it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in the contemporary world. In this provocative collection

高效能軟體團隊對於任何組織持續交付價值來說都至關重要。團隊拓撲是一種高效能團隊模式，本書為組織設計和團隊交互提供了一種實用的、逐步的、自我調整的模型，將團隊視為基本的交付方式，團隊結構和溝通路徑能夠隨著技術和組織的成熟而發展。在本書中，IT顧問Matthew Skelton和Manuel Pais在軟體組織設計方面邁出了重要的一步。本書使用案例研究和行業實例展示了一種明確定義的團隊間交互和相互關聯的方式，使軟體架構更清晰、更持續，將團隊間的問題轉化為自治組織的有價值信號。

Beginning Linux Programming, Fourth Edition continues its unique approach to teaching UNIX programming in a simple and structured way on the Linux platform. Through the use of detailed and realistic e