1st Edition

Exploring Food and Urbanism

Edited By Susan Parham, Matthew Hardy Copyright 2022
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

Exploring Food and Urbanism looks at the ways food and cities interconnect in a diversity of places across the globe. The book’s focus moves from transformations in feeding the city and its hinterland in Istanbul, Turkey, through neighbourhoods struggling with food access in Blantyre, Malawi, to the challenges in making convivial public food spaces in Cairo. It explores everyday buying... Read more

Introduction: Exploring food and urbanism

Susan Parham

1. Feeding the global city: urban transformation and urban food supply chain in 21st-century Istanbul

Candan Turkkan

2. Malawian urbanism and urban poverty: geographies of food access in Blantyre

Liam Riley

3. Reconnection and reflexivity in Islamabad, Pakistan

Saher Hasnain

4. Food consumption in the everyday life of liveable cities: design implications for conviviality

Abeer Elshater

5. Production of Edibles and Use of Garden Waste in Domestic Gardens of a Middle-Class Suburb in Cape Town, South Africa

Anjali Mistry and Manfred Spocter

6. Sharing a meal: a diversity of performances engendered by a social innovation

Marianne J. Dagevos and Esther J. Veen

Biography

Susan Parham, MRTPI FRSA is food and urbanism specialist, Director of the University of Hertfordshire’s Urbanism Unit, Academic Director of the International Garden Cities Institute, and Research Associate at the Laboratory for Building Cultures at the École Nationale Supérieure Architecture Grenoble.

Matthew Hardy, FRSA FRAIA RIBA is Senior Lecturer in Architecture & Urbanism at The Prince’s Foundation, Senior Associate Tutor in the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford, Research Associate at the Laboratory for Building Cultures at the École Nationale Supérieure Architecture Grenoble, and co-founder and co-editor of Journal of Urbanism.