Making visible the Edible City
By Katrin Bohn and Mikey Tomkins
NEW PUBLICATION RELEASED MARCH 2024
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 infrastructures. This first book to systematize 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.
PURCHASE: URBAN FOOD MAPPING: MAKING VISIBLE THE EDIBLE CITY