A NEW PUBLICATION HELPING TO CREATE A MOVEMENT FOR URBAN FOOD MAPPING.
“In the realm of urban development and sustainability, Urban Food Mapping: Making Visible the Edible City emerges as a seminal work …”
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. 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 new publication for 2024 is edited by Katrin Bohn and Mikey Tomkins. The book explores urban food mapping as a distinct activity and area of research. It 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. The 200 mapping images in 25 selected chapters combine theoretical, methodological and practical analysis and applications to examine food through multiple and innovative map-making that empowers communities and inspires food planning authorities.
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.
‘A fascinating and timely account of the numerous ways in which urban food shapes our lives and how a spatial understanding of food can help us understand our impact on the world and our interconnectedness.’
Carolyn Steel, architect, urbanist, author of Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives (2008) and Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World (2020), Great Britain
‘This book offers a vital survey of the act and art of urban food mapping as a practice that is increasingly used as a participatory mechanism for bringing visibility to the place of food systems within urban systems. This rich and overdue addition to the literature on cities and food, in effect, maps urban food mapping.’
Dr. Joe Nasr, architect, urbanist, urban agriculture pioneer, lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
‘Urban Food Mapping creatively maps the many roles food plays in cities around the world and invites us to see urban spaces through new lenses. This book is a methodologically innovative and thought provoking addition to urban and food studies.’
Dr. Jane Battersby, urban and human geographer, senior lecturer at the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa
‘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, Great Britain
‘If you are interested to move towards a productive urban food future, this book is a must-have! In a refreshing way, essays outline the breadth of questions and approaches to action, focusing on the role of different mapping methods as knowledge generators and communication tools.’
Undine Giseke, landscape architect, partner in bgmr Landschaftsarchitekten, professor emeritus at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
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