Matthew Gandy is Professor of Geography at the University of Cambridge and an award-winning documentary filmmaker. His articles have appeared in many leading journals including IJURR, New Left Review and Society and Space. His books include Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City (MIT Press, 2002), The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity, and the Urban Imagination (MIT Press, 2014), Moth (Reaktion, 2016) and Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space (MIT Press, 2022). He is currently working on zoonotic aspects to urban epidemiology as part of a wider conceptual framing for the multispecies city.