Selected essays and other writings

Above the treetops: nature, history and the limits to philosophical naturalism

Cities in deep time: bio-diversity, metabolic rift and the urban question

Contradictory modernities: conceptions of nature in the art of Joseph Beuys and Gerhard Richter

Cyborg urbanization: complexity and monstrosity in the contemporary city

The Drowned World: J.G. Ballard and the politics of catastrophe

The ecological facades of Patrick Blanc

Entropy by design: Gilles Clément, Parc Henri-Matisse and the limits to avant-garde urbanism

The fly that tried to save the world: saproxylic geographies and other-than-human ecologies

Landscape and infrastructure in the late-modern metropolis

Landscapes of deliquesence in Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert

Landscapes of disaster: water, modernity and urban fragmentation in Mumbai

Learning from Lagos

Marginalia: aesthetics, ecology, and urban wastelands

Negative luminescence

The Paris sewers and the rationalization of urban space

Planning, anti-planning and the infrastructure crisis facing metropolitan Lagos

Queer ecology: nature, sexuality and heterotopic alliances

Rethinking urban metabolism: water, space and the modern city

Riparian anomie: reflections on the Los Angeles River

Spaces of indistinction: bio-political contestations in the urban arena

Urban atmospheres

Urban constellations

Visions of darkness: the representation of darkness in the films of Werner Herzog

Where does the city end?