Hungry City
How Food Shapes Our Lives
Ranked #100 in Urban Planning
*Global food production increased by 145% in the last 4 decades of the 20th century - yet an estimated 800 million people are still hungry
*In 2005 British supermarkets sent half a million tonnes of edible food to landfill - the whole food sector put together sent 17 million tonnes
*One quarter of the British population is obese - one in three meals we eat is a ready meal
WHY?
The relationship between food and cities is fundamental to our every day lives. Food shapes... more
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Jeremy Till Hungry City shows how architects are far more enmeshed in the world around them than they themselves would like to believe. (Source)
Richard Reynolds Carolyn Steel carries on the theme of how we use land. She deals with the very current concern that cities today are not sustainable because the hinterlands from which they are fed are running out. The trail that food has to take is enormous and also not sustainable. What Carolyn Steel does is give a fascinating historical perspective. You realise that these problems are nothing new. For example during the Roman Empire there were huge food miles importing oysters from Whitby in England to the well-to-do in Rome. What I found particularly refreshing about her book is that although the concept... (Source)