“Gandy's majestic exploration of the posthuman, postcolonial 'ecological pluriverse' of cultural, material, and biophysical traces from across the globe opens a treasure trove of new ways to understand the fluidity of urban ecologies and natures.”
Julian Agyeman, Tufts University
“Gandy's erudite book offers a compelling engagement with the diversity of human and nonhuman agents in the shaping of the urban environment and its many facets and meanings.”
Sonja Dümpelmann, University of Pennsylvania
“Gandy's Natura Urbana is stunning scholarship. Never before has urban nature been subject to such a creative, lively, and original analysis.”
Jennifer Wolch, University of California, Berkeley
"Natura Urbana is a tour de force. It eschews the typical characteristics of academic monographs in a refreshing, dialectical, and original manner."
Brian F. O'Neill
New Global Studies
"Gandy assembles a rich ecosystem of examples and theoretical material, troubling the history of intellectual and policy engagement with city natures while pointing toward pluralist urban ecological futures."
AAG Review of Books
“Drawing on decades of work and observation, especially in Berlin and London, and on a vast, almost spiralling, and beautifully connected theoretical framework assembled from a thought landscape that includes neo-Marxism, feminism, posthumanism and postcolonialism, Gandy seeks a 'critical synthesis between different strands of urban ecology and a variety of other postpositivist theoretical developments.'”
Henriette Steiner
Journal of Urban Design
“[A] sweeping, compendious work, focused on the specifically urban nature of 'urban nature', and the ways in which accidental and unpredictable interactions of flora, fauna and human beings have taken place within large cities.”
Sidecar
"Gandy's book makes a significant contribution to the study of urban nature, and succeeds in combining a sensitivity to the dimension of power, rooted in the critical tradition of urban political ecology, with emerging post-humanist and postcolonial approaches to overcome anthropocentrism and ethnocentrism."
European Journal of Sociology
Winner, John Brickerhoff Jackson Book Prize, 2023
