Urban Food Mapping Making Visible the Edible City

Preface

Katrin Bohn and Mikey Tomkins

Mapping the Edible City: Making visible food, people and space

Katrin Bohn and Mikey Tomkins

FOOD GROWING SITES: Reimagining land use

Edible London: A greater London agriculture

Dominic Walker and Tim Rodber

Agroecologics: Reimagining an agri-urban design for Luxembourg

Ivonne Weichold

Re-negotiating the boundaries between infrastructure and landscape: Mapping infrastructural ecologies

Jacques Abelman and Matthew Potteiger

Mapping urban agriculture potentials in Nerima City, Tokyo

Andre Viljoen

Mapping multifunctional agro-urban landscape to manage the edible city in North-Eastern Italy

Viviana Ferrario and Fabrizio D’Angelo

FOOD SYSTEM ACTIVITIES: Recording economies, patterns and crises

Using visual methods to map green infrastructure for a sustainable food economy in Letchworth Garden City

Amélie André

A participatory digital mapping practice: Proposing Integrated Development Areas for food secure systems in cities

Howard Lee and Will Hughes

Walking out for dinner: Discovering and mapping food choices in Saigon

Patrick S. Ford and Nina Yiu Lai Lei

Follow the food… and the spaces it shapes

Natacha Quintero González and Anke Hagemann

Rupturing the mundane in times of crisis: New geographies of food in Hannover, Germany

Gesine Tuitjer, Leonie Tuitjer and Anna-Lisa Müller

FOOD STAKEHOLDERS: Proposing change for communities

Lambeth plots: Two mapping projects highlighting existing and potential city spaces for food growing

Janie Bickersteth, Joana Ferro, Marjorie Landels and Stephanie Robson

The practice of sharing: Mapping food networks in Delft, South Africa

Adrian Paulsen and Bradley Rink

Six feet high and rising: Mapping the Edible City as a theatre of food

Mikey Tomkins

Mapping seeds of freedom with Red de Huerteros Medellín

Paula Andrea Restrepo Hoyos 

Food in urban design and planning: The CPUL Opportunity Mapping Method

Katrin Bohn

FOOD PRODUCE AND CULTURES: Uncovering the special in the everyday

Oota Kathegalu: Tracing the food stories of Bengaluru, India

Marthe Derkzen, Maitreyi Koduganti Venkata, Sheetal Patil and Parama Roy

Emblematic fruit: Mapping aguaje palm fruit vendors during Covid-19 in Iquitos, Peru

Diana Tung

Participative food culture mapping in polarized urban districts

Mila Brill

Reimagining the (agri)cultural city: Commoning and cultivating relationships in Utrecht, Holland

Merel Zwarts, Corelia Baibarac-Duignan and Asia Komarova

A fairy tale of a place: Depictions of 21st century London as a fantasy foodscape in contemporary food writing

Silvia Rosivalová Baučeková

FOOD NETWORKS AND RESOURCES: Connecting people and places

Food Atlas Vienna: A collective cartography of the urban food landscape

Daniel Löschenbrand, Vanessa Giolai and Angelika Psenner

Mapping Malus in Massachusetts: Creating a system for apple foraging

Raphaella Mascia and Daina Cheyenne Harvey

The historic foodscapes of Lisbon: Mapping for a sustainable future

Mariana Sanchez Salvador

A food security geonarrative: Mapping in/formal foodscapes in Bangalore, India

Jessica Ann Diehl

Chicago’s urban food networks: Mapping the future of a thriving metropolitan foodshed

Gundula Proksch and George Lee

Biography

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.

"A fascinating and timely account of the numerous ways in which urban food shapes our lives and how a spatial understanding of food can help us understand our impact on the world and our interconnectedness. With a cross-disciplinary approach and examples from across the world bringing a rich range of perspectives, this is a must-read for anyone studying urban food systems, culture and ecology."

Carolyn Steel, architect, urbanist, author of Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives (2008) and Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World (2020), Great Britain

 

"Mapping cities is centuries old, but mapping food in and for cities is recent but fast growing and diversifying. This book offers a vital survey of the act and art of urban food mapping as a practice that is increasingly used as a participatory mechanism for bringing visibility to the place of food systems within urban systems. This rich and overdue addition to the literature on cities and food, in effect, maps urban food mapping."

Dr. Joe Nasr, architect, urbanist, urban agriculture pioneer, lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

 

"Food is central to our urban lives and shapes our cities and yet it often remains unseen in planning, in policy and indeed in the maps made of our cities. Urban Food Mapping creatively maps the many roles food plays in cities around the world and invites us to see urban spaces through new lenses. This book is a methodologically innovative and thought provoking addition to urban and food studies."

Dr. Jane Battersby, urban and human geographer, senior lecturer at the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa

 

"No matter from which perspective you look: if you are interested to move towards a productive urban food future, this book is a must-have! In a refreshing way, essays outline the breadth of questions and approaches to action, focusing on the role of different mapping methods as knowledge generators and communication tools. By carefully and astutely framing the approaches, the book discloses the revelatory power of mapping methods and outlines the need for urban food mapping as an urban practice and a future interdisciplinary field of research."

Undine Giseke, landscape architect, partner in bgmr Landschaftsarchitekten, professor emeritus at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

 

"This book reminds us how important planning is and can be for the Great Food Transformation that science warns we need. It helps reconnect rural and urban realities, and unpick some crazy routes food takes. Should we be wary of top-down plans but embrace civic planning? Now read on…!"

Tim Lang, Emeritus Professor of Food Policy, City, University of London,Great Britain

"[The book's] advantages lie in its interdisciplinary approach and global case studies, which provide a comprehensive view of urban food mapping practices....The editors' and contributors' insights and experiences provide a comprehensive overview of the challenges and opportunities in creating edible cities, making this book a cornerstone for further research and action in the field of urban food mapping."

Mohammad Reza Khalilnezhad, Faculty of Arts, University of Birjand, Iran, review for the Journal of Agriculture and Human Values