Food and the City: Histories of Culture and Cultivation - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0884024040 ISBN 13: 9780884024040

Casa editrice: Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service, 2015

Riassunto

Food and the City explores the physical, social, and political relations between the production of food and urban settlements. Its thirteen essays discuss the multiple scales and ideologies of productive landscapes—from market gardens in sixteenth-century Paris to polder planning near mid-twentieth century Amsterdam to opportunistic agriculture in today’s Global South—and underscore the symbiotic connection between productive landscape and urban form across times and geographies. The physical proximity of fruit and vegetable production to urban consumers in pre-revolutionary Paris, or the distribution of fish in Imperial Edo, was an essential factor in shaping both city and surroundings. Colonial expansion and modernist planning stressed the essential relation between urbanism and food production, at the scales of both the garden and agriculture. This volume offers a variety of perspectives—from landscape and architectural history to geography—to connect the garden, market, city, and beyond through the lenses of modernism, technology, scale, social justice, and fashion. Essays on the Fascist new settlements in Ethiopia, Le Corbusier’s Radiant Farm and views on rural France, the urban farms in Israel, and thedesakota landscape of the Pearl River Delta, to name a few, will appeal to those concerned with urban, landscape, and architectural studies.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0884024040
• ISBN 13: 9780884024040
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 374
• Redattore: Imbert Dorothée