Matthew Gandy is Professor of Geography and Director of the UCL Urban Laboratory.  Recent publications include Concrete and clay: reworking nature in New York City (MIT Press), "Learning from Lagos" in New Left Review and "Cyborg urbanization: complexity and monstrosity in the contemporary city" in The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.  He is currently writing a book about cultural histories of urban infrastructure and is co-convenor of the new Urban Studies MSc at UCL