Food and Urbanism : The Convivial City and a Sustainable Future

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Food, scale and urbanism -- Food, embodiment and visceral geographies -- Food, spatiality and political economy/ecology -- Food as a spatial design matter -- Food, traditional design and modernism -- Food, urbanism, taste and justice -- Conviviality as a framing element -- Sustainability, the modern food system and urbanism -- Part 1 Food, Domesticity and Design -- Chapter 1 Starting with the Table -- Introduction -- 'Where is urbanism and why do we care about tables?' -- The paradoxical kitchen -- Ask the experts -- Food at home -- Domestic food space in review -- Chapter 2 The Garden and Gastronomy -- Introduction -- The productive garden situated -- Contemporary practices in domestic food production -- Connecting the house and garden through food -- Reanimating the productive garden -- Design requirements for vegetable gardens -- Implications for the gastronomic garden -- The chapter in review -- Part 2 Gastronomy and the Urbanism of Public Space -- Chapter 3 Food's Outdoor Room -- Introduction -- Situating food markets as outdoor rooms -- Food markets at the heart of urban space -- Food markets and the development of the modern city -- Food markets maintained: food markets revived -- Diversity and adaption: London food markets as an example -- Farmers' markets and hybrid markets -- Markets as designed spaces - lessons from primary research -- Food's outdoor room in review -- Chapter 4 The Gastronomic Townscape -- Introduction -- Situating food shops and food streets -- Street food transformed -- Food vans and pods: pop ups and night markets -- Gastronomic townscape as designed space -- Slow food spaces and courts -- Café cultures and spaces -- Conviviality and the kopitiam -- Snack bars and gastronomic niches.