Hungry City

by Carolyn Steel

Hungry City shows how architects are far more enmeshed in the world around them than they themselves would like to believe. It is book which provides a very evocative description about how one thing, food, has shaped our cities, through things like markets, food miles and food production and so on. It’s an argument which, if you thought about before you read the book, you might think was a bit mad. But by the time you get to the end, you are persuaded that food is absolutely essential to the way that we understand our cities.