1st Edition

Food City

By CJ Lim Copyright 2014
304 Pages 130 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 130 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 130 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In Food City , a companion piece to Smartcities and Eco-Warriors , innovative architect and urban designer CJ Lim explores the issue of urban transformation and how the creation, storage and distribution of food has been and can again become a construct for the practice of everyday life. Food City investigates the reinstatement of food at the core of national and local governance -- how it... Read more

Preface The Urban Banquet: A Pictorial Essay 2014: Food and the City (i) Food + Business: A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush (ii) Food + Community: Taste the Difference (iii) Food + Culture: All in Good Taste (iv) Food + Education: Food for Thought (v) Food + Employment: Every Little Helps (vi) Food + Energy: Five A Day (vii) Food + Health: Feed a Fever (viii) Food + Law: Table Manners (ix) Food + Transport: Fast Food 2018: A Manifesto 2080: The Food Parliament 2080 BC: The First Cities Research and Reproduction Credits Index

Biography

CJ Lim is Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Bartlett UCL and founder of Studio 8 Architects, a multi-disciplinary practice in urban planning, architecture and landscape focusing on cultural, social and sustainability issues. His other authored books published by Routledge include Smartcities and Eco-warriors (2010), and Short Stories: London in two-and-a-half dimensions (2011).