| Description |
xi, 374 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm |
| Series |
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the history of landscape architecture ; XXXVI |
| Contents |
Introduction : food and the city / Dorothée Imbert -- Three acres and a cow? : small-scale agriculture as solution to urban impoverishment in Britain and Germany, 1880-1933 / David H. Haney -- Food for the body and the soul : Hebrew-Israeli urban foodscapes / Tal Alon-Mozes -- Consuming empire : colonial agriculture under Italian fascism / David Rifkind -- The country is the other city of tomorrow? : Le Corbusier's Ferme radieuse and Village Radieux / Mary McLeod -- The Landscape of the Dutch IJsselmeer Polders : Amsterdam and Its food supply system, 1930-69 / Zef Hemel -- From beets in the Bronx to chard in Chicago : the discourse and practice of growing food in the American city / Laura Lawson and Luke Drake -- Urban agriculture in cities of the global South : four logics of integration / Luc J. A. Mougeot -- Transforming a hostile environment : Japanese immigrant farmers in metropolitan California / Donna Graves -- How Tokyo invented sushi / Jordan Sand -- Urban agriculture in the Pearl River Delta / Margaret Crawford -- Paris is a land of plenty? : kitchen gardens as urban phenomenon in a modern-era European city (sixteenth through eighteenth centuries) / Florent Quellier -- Market gardens in Paris : a circulus intelligent circa 1790-1900 / Susan Taylor-Leduc -- Markets and the food landscape in France, 1940-72 / Meredith TenHoor |
| Summary |
'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 the desakota landscape of the Pearl River Delta, to name a few, will appeal to those concerned with urban, landscape, and architectural studies |
| Notes |
"Volume based on papers presented at the symposium 'Food and the City,' held at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., on May 4-5, 2012." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Sustainable agriculture -- Congresses.
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Urban agriculture -- Congresses.
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Sustainable agriculture.
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Urban agriculture.
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Urbanization -- Congresses.
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Urbanization.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Imbert, Dorothée, editor
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| LC no. |
2014023495 |
| ISBN |
9780884024040 (hardcover) |
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