Carolyn Steel
Carolyn Steel is a practicing architect, she joined Kilburn Nightingale Architects in 1989 and has run successful design units at Cambridge, The University of North London (now London Metropolitan University), and at the London School of Economics. Her 2008 book Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives won the Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction.
Books by Carolyn Steel
“really, really interesting, very wide-ranging. It looks at the world through the prism of food, covering everything from land use to philosophy, culture, and many contemporary issues like, for example, obesity.” Read more...
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.
Interviews with Carolyn Steel
The best books on Food and the City, recommended by Carolyn Steel
The architect, writer, lecturer, and director of Kilburn Nightingale Architects says architecture should not be just about buildings, but about everything else in our environment
Interviews where books by Carolyn Steel were recommended
The best books on Guerrilla Gardening, recommended by Richard Reynolds
Discussion of the lesser-known subject of guerilla gardening – the illicit cultivation of someone else’s land. A fascinating and historical topic, and eclectic book selections include a history of Google
The best books on The Context of Architecture, recommended by Jeremy Till
Architecture depends at the building stage on money and politics, and later on users, time and weather. Jeremy Till picks five books to allow you behind the scenes of the building sites.
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Irreplaceable: The fight to save our wild places
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Life Changing: How Humans Are Altering Life on Earth
by Helen Pilcher -
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Rebirding: Rewilding Britain and Its Birds
by Benedict Macdonald -
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Sitopia: How Food Can Change the World
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What We Need To Do Now
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Working With Nature
by Jeremy Purseglove
The Best Conservation Books of 2020, selected by Charlotte Smith
The Best Conservation Books of 2020, selected by Charlotte Smith
Conservation and the battle against climate change are two of the most pressing issues of our age. But books on the subject have to be readable and enjoyable too, says Charlotte Smith – BBC presenter and judge for the 2020 Wainwright Prize for books on global conservation. Here she highlights the six shortlisted titles that will enchant and inspire you.
