Making visible the Edible City
By Katrin Bohn and Mikey Tomkins
“In the realm of urban development and sustainability, Urban Food Mapping: Making Visible the Edible City emerges as a seminal work …”
Mohammad Reza Khalilnezhad. Review in Agriculture and Human Values, 2024.
This new “seminal” book defines URBAN FOOD MAPPING as an essential area for research, creativity, and practice around food and urbanism, and urban agriculture. 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.
‘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, UK




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.
About the authors
Mikey Tomkins co-authored with Katrin Bohn.

Katrin Bohn is an architect and urban practitioner and a principal lecturer at the University of Brighton, UK. Previously, she was a guest professor at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, where she set up and ran the Department City & Food. Since the 2000s, she has taught, talked and lectured to many audiences in Europe and worldwide. Together with André Viljoen, she forms Bohn&Viljoen Architects and has worked intensely on their food-focused urban design concept CPUL (Continuous Productive Urban Landscape) which, in 2015, won the international RIBA president’s “award for outstanding university-located research”.
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