Hungry City

How Food Shapes Our Lives

Carolyn Steel

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English

Vintage
16 May 2013

Society & Social Sciences; Food & society; Consumerism; Waste management; Urban & municipal planning

A passionate, important and visionary book about how our cities are fed, and how this affects our lives and our planet.
*According to the Trussell Trust, food bank use between April

and Sept 2018 was up 13% on the same period in 2017.
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*Every year in the UK 18 million tonnes of food end up in landfill.
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Why is this the case and what can we do about it?

The relationship between food and cities is fundamental to our everyday lives. Food shapes cities and through them it moulds us - along with the countryside that feeds us. Yet few of us are conscious of the process and we rarely stop to wonder how food reaches our plates.

Hungry City examines the way in which modern food production has damaged the balance of human existence, and reveals that we have yet to resolve a centuries-old dilemma - one which holds the key to a host of current problems, from obesity and the inexorable rise of the supermarkets, to the destruction of the natural world.

Original, inspiring and written with infectious enthusiasm and belief, Hungry City illuminates an issue that is fundamental to us all.

By: Carolyn Steel
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 483g
ISBN: 9780099584476
ISBN 10: 0099584476
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 16 May 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , College/higher education , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Carolyn Steel is an architect, lecturer and writer. Since training at Cambridge, she has combined architectural practice with teaching and research into the everyday lives of cities, running design studios at the LSE, Metropolitan University and at Cambridge, where her lecture course 'Food and the City' is an established part of the degree programme. As well as being a director of Cullum and Nightingale Architects, she was a Rome scholar, has written for the architectural press, and has presented on the BBC's One Foot in the Past.

Reviews for Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives

'Absolutely crammed with eye-opening facts and figures, a hugely readable account of the part we individually play in a global problem. Highly Recommended' Publishing News Hungry City is a sinister real-life sequel to Animal Farm with the plot turned upside down by time in ways even George Orwell could not have foreseen Observer Exuberant, provocative ... her desire that we understand better and think more about our food, how much we waste, how much energy it consumes and how we dispose of it - is in the real sense of the word - vital -- David Aaronovitch The Times Hungry City is a smorgasbord of a book: dip into it and you will emerge with something fascinating Independent She can precis her specialist sources briskly, and her own direct research (e.g. a mega kitchen for cooking ready meals) is lively -- Vera Rule Guardian