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.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Four StarsBy silverdeerA good source of scholarly essays on the top of museology in the Middle East.
