Urban Food Mapping: Making Visible the Edible City - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1032402814 ISBN 13 : 9781032402819

Editeur : Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

With cities becoming so vast, so entangled and perhaps so critically unsustainable, there is an urgent need for clarity around the subject of how we feed ourselves as an urban species. Urban food mapping becomes the tool to investigate the spatial relationships, gaps, scales and systems that underlie and generate what, where and how we eat, highlighting current and potential ways to (re)connect with our diet, ourselves and our environments.

Richly explored, using over 200 mapping images in 25 selected chapters, this book identifies urban food mapping as a distinct activity and area of research that enables a more nuanced way of understanding the multiple issues facing contemporary urbanism and the manyfold roles food spaces play within it. The authors of this multidisciplinary volume extend their approaches to place making, storytelling, in-depth observation and imagining liveable futures and engagement around food systems, thereby providing a comprehensive picture of our daily food flows and intrastructures. Their images and essays combine theoretical, methodological and practical analysis and applications to examine food through innovative map-making that empowers communities and inspires food planning authorities. This first book to systematise urban food mapping showcases and bridges disciplinary boundaries to make theoretical concepts as well as practical experiences and issues accessible and attractive to a wide audience, from the activist to the academic, the professional and the amateur. It will be of interest to those involved in the all-important work around food cultures, food security, urban agriculture, land rights, environmental planning and design who wish to create a more beautiful, equitable and sustainable urban environment.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Katrin Bohn is an architect and urban practitioner and a principal lecturer at the University of Brighton, UK. Together with André Viljoen, she forms Bohn&Viljoen Architects, developing their food-focused urban design concept Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes (CPUL) in theory and practice.

Mikey Tomkins is an independent researcher, artist and honorary research fellow at the University of Brighton, UK. He runs Edible Urban, a company that conducts the Edible Mapping Project, a participatory mapping project engaging communities in revisioning urban space for food production.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1032402814
• ISBN 13: 9781032402819
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Éditeur: Bohn Katrin, Tomkins Mikey
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• Personne responsable: non disponible