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Book SynopsisFood and the City makes the relationships between food and the city visible by exploring both the ways in which buying and eating food have become such a significant part of urban public life, and the ways in which design supports and enhances the place of food in the city.
Trade Review"...Food and the City fills the reader's plate with fare enough to savour and digest." (Frame, No 46 September 2005)
Table of ContentsEditorial
(Helen Castle). The City as Dining Room, Market and Farm (Karen A Franck).
Raw, Medium, Well Done: A Typological Reading of Australian Eating Places (Rachel Hurst & Jane Lawrence).
Taste, Smell and Sound On the Street in Chinatown and Little Italy (Nisha Fernando).
The New and the Rare: Luxury and Convenience in Japanese Depa-chika (Masaaki Takahashi).
Food for the City, Food in the City (Karen A Franck).
Tasting the Periphery: Bangkok’s Agri- and Aquacultural Fringe (Brian McGrath & Danai Thaitakoo).
Urban Agriculture: Small, Medium, Large (Gil Doron).
The City as Dining Room: Big-Sign Dining in Hong Kong (Jeffrey W Cody & Mary C Day).
Blurring Boundaries, Defining Places: The New Hybrid Spaces of Eating (Gail Satler).
Out of the Kitchen and onto the Footpath (Louisa Carter).
What’s Eating Manchester? Gastro-Culture and Urban Regeneration (David Bell & Jon Binnie).
Designing the Gastronomic Quarter (Susan Parham).
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Interior Eye: Shopping at MoMA (Craig Kellogg).
Building Profile: Fawood Children’s Centre (Jeremy Melvin).
Home Run: Self-Build Housing in Peckham (Bruce Stewart).
McLean’s Nuggets: Will McLean - Practice Profile: Walters and Cohen (Jeremy Melvin).
Site Lines: Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate (Sean Stanwick).
