Carolyn Steel
Carolyn Steel is a British architect and author known for her work on the relationship between food and cities. She is the author of 'Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives' and 'Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World', exploring how urban environments and food systems intersect.
Books
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1. Hungry City
How Food Shapes Our Lives
This insightful exploration delves into the intricate relationship between urban development and food systems, revealing how cities have been shaped by the need to feed their inhabitants. It examines the historical evolution of food supply chains and their impact on urban landscapes, highlighting the challenges and opportunities presented by modern food logistics. Through a blend of historical analysis and contemporary case studies, the narrative underscores the importance of rethinking food distribution to create more sustainable and resilient urban environments.
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2. Sitopia
How Food Can Save the World
An eloquent argument that food — not money or technology — should be the organizing principle of cities and public life, tracing how what we eat has shaped urban form, trade, empire and social relations; it exposes how industrial supply chains, colonial commodity systems and modern planning have obscured food’s central role while producing environmental damage and inequality, and it calls for rethinking infrastructure and policy to put kitchens, farmers, markets and care at the heart of planning, relocalize supply chains, and redesign food systems to be sustainable, nourishing and just.
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