Food and the City : histories of culture and cultivation / Dorothée Imbert, editor.

"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-twentiet...

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Corporate Authors: Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture Washington, D.C.
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture
Other Authors: Imbert, Dorothée (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2015]
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Physical Description:xi, 374 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
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.