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Matthew Gandy, FBA (born 1965 in London) is a geographer and urbanist.He is Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography and Fellow of King's College at the University of Cambridge, moving from University College London (UCL) in 2015, where he was also the founder and first Director of the UCL Urban Laboratory from 2005 to 2011.
Atmosphere is an immediate form of physical perception, and is recognised through emotional sensibility. Architects and designers use the notion of atmosphere to argue that architecture and space is designed and built for people to use and experience.
Matthew Gandy proposes that urban parks, for example, are heteronormative because they reflect hierarchies of property and ownership. [21] "Queer", in the case of urban nature, refers to spatial difference and marginalization, beyond sexuality. Queer ecology is also important within individual households.
Urban geography is the subdiscipline of geography that derives from a study of cities and urban processes. Urban geographers and urbanists [1] examine various aspects of urban life and the built environment. Scholars, activists, and the public have participated in, studied, and critiqued flows of economic and natural resources, human and non ...
Urban ecology is the scientific study of the relation of living organisms with each other and their surroundings in an urban environment. An urban environment refers to environments dominated by high-density residential and commercial buildings, paved surfaces, and other urban-related factors that create a unique landscape. The goal of urban ...
Urban climatology is the study of urban climate. It is a branch of climatology that concerns interactions between urban areas and the atmosphere , the effects they have on one another, and the varying spatial and temporal scales at which these processes (and responses) occur.
Image credits: MAAAS399 When people move to urban areas in large numbers, which is known as urbanization, it results in urban sprawl. This means that the population of cities becomes dispersed in ...
Urban planning designs settlements, from the smallest towns to the largest cities. Shown here is Hong Kong from Western District overlooking Kowloon, across Victoria Harbour. Planning theory is the body of scientific concepts, definitions, behavioral relationships, and assumptions that define the body of knowledge of urban planning. There is no ...