Main entry:

Lim, C. J.

Title & Author:

Food city / CJ Lim.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2014.

Description:

304 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- A Pictorial Essay The Urban Banquet -- 2014: Food + the City -- Food + Business (i) A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush -- Food + Community (ii) Taste the Difference -- Food + Culture (iii) All in Good Taste -- Food + Education (iv) Food for Thought -- Food + Employment (v) Every Little Helps -- Food + Energy (vi) Five A Day -- Food + Health (vii) Feed A Fever -- Food + Law (viii) Table Manners -- Food + Transport (ix) Fast Food -- 2018: The Food Parliament: A Manifesto -- 2080: London: The Food Parliament

Summary:

"In Food City, a companion piece to Smartcities and Eco-Warriors, innovative architect and urban designer CJ Lim explores the issue of urban transformation and how the creation, storage and distribution of food has been and can again become a construct for the practice of everyday life. Food City investigates the reinstatement of food at the core of national and local governance -- how it can be a driver to restructure employment, education, transport, tax, health, culture, communities, and the justice system, re-evaluating how the city functions as a spatial and political entity. Global in scope, Food City first addresses the frameworks of over 25 international cities through the medium of food and how the city is governed. It then provides a case study through drawings, models, and text, exploring how a secondary infrastructure could function as a living environmental and food system operating as a sustainable stratum over the city of London. This case study raises serious questions about the priorities of our governing bodies, using architectural relationships to reframe the spaces of food consumption and production, analyzed through historical precedent, function and form. This study of the integration of food, architecture, and the development of future cities will both inspire and stimulate professionals and students in the fields of urban design and architecture."-- Provided by publisher.
"In Food City, a companion piece to Smartcities and Eco-Warriors, innovative architect and urban designer CJ Lim explores the issue of urban transformation and how the creation, storage and distribution of food has been and can again become a construct for the practice of everyday life. Food City investigates the reinstatement of food at the core of national and local governance -- how it can be a driver to restructure employment, education, transport, tax, health, culture, communities, and the justice system, re-evaluating how the city functions as a spatial and political entity"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780415539265 (hardback)
0415539269 (hardback)
9780415539272 (paperback)
0415539277 (paperback)
9781315852560 (ebk)

Subject:

Food industry and trade Case studies.
Food Transportation Case studies.
Food service Case studies.
City planning.
Aliments Transport Études de cas.
Services alimentaires Études de cas.
ARCHITECTURE General.
Food industry and trade
Food service
Food Transportation

Form/genre:

Case studies.
Études de cas.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286385
Call No.: BIB 226671
Status: Available