1st Edition
Urban Food Mapping Making Visible the Edible City
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.
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
