Food and Urbanism: The Convivial City and a Sustainable Future

377 Pages·2015·3.069 MB·English

by  Susan Parham

Food and Urbanism
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Food and Urbanism
The Convivial CiTy and
a sUsTainable FUTUre
Susan Parham
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ISBN: HB: 978-0-8578-5452-0
PB: 978-0-8578-5453-7
ePDF: 978-1-4725-2096-8
ePub: 978-0-8578-5474-2
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
ISBN 978-0-85785-452-0 (hardback) – ISBN 978-0-85785-453-7 (paperback) – ISBN (invalid)
978-1-4725-2096-8 (epdf) 1. Sustainable urban development. 2. Food–Social aspects.
3. Sociology, Urban. 4. City planning. I. Title.
HT241.P357 2015
307.1'16–dc23
2014037317
Typeset by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India
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Contents
List of iLLustrations viii
acknowLedgements x
Preface xi
Introduction 1
PArt one Food, domestICIty And desIgn
1 starting with the table 19
2 the garden and gastronomy 47
PArt two gAstronomy And the UrBAnIsm
oF PUBlIC sPACe
3 Food’s outdoor room 71
4 the gastronomic townscape 97
5 Ambivalent suburbia 130
6 Convivial green space 157
PArt three Food sPACe And UrBAnIsm on the edge
7 the Productive Periphery 189
8 the megalopolitan Food realm 215
9 the Critical Food region 239
Conclusion: Food and Urbanism in review 268
BiBLiograPhy 279
index 353
lIst oF IllUstrAtIons
ChAPter 1
1.1 the Frankfurt Kitchen. 31
ChAPter 2
2.1 walled kitchen garden, Culross Palace, Fife. 59
ChAPter 3
3.1 market-related ‘outdoor room’, spain. 72
3.2 market hall entrance, Porto. 77
3.3 Fruit stall and cart, Alexandria. 84
ChAPter 4
4.1 traditional food shop frontage, Paris. 101
4.2 street food, whitecross street, london. 103
4.3 Food truck, leigh street, Adelaide. 106
4.4 street café, Cluj, transylvania. 112
4.5 negotiating ‘third space’ use in a public building, london. 115
ChAPter 5
5.1 garden City diagram. 133
5.2 1960s shopping ‘street’ with supermarket, london. 140
5.3 suburban shopping centre, Australia. 143
ChAPter 6
6.1 traditional productive urban space, transylvania. 159
6.2 Urban agriculture project in glasgow. 162
6.3 second world war Victory gardens poster, UsA. 165
lIst oF IllUstrAtIons ix
6.4 Community garden, Adelaide. 169
6.5 Contemporary allotment garden, london. 171
6.6 skip garden, King’s Cross, london. 173
6.7 Community garden scheme, north london. 175
ChAPter 7
7.1 Peripheral food-growing space, transylvanian village. 190
7.2 edge-of-town cabbage field, lincolnshire. 198
7.3 Farmers’ market, norway. 206
7.4 Productive landscape design, southern France. 211
ChAPter 8
8.1 super-regional mall ‘café’ foodspace, london. 223
8.2 ‘Food desert’ located shop, lA, UsA. 234
8.3 Chain store ‘urban’ food shop. 237
ChAPter 9
9.1 regional cheese display, France. 244
9.2 local food products, Porto. 248
9.3 regional meat products stall, south Australia. 258
9.4 traditional agricultural landscapes, transylvania. 263