Hungry City by Carolyn Steel

Hungry City by Carolyn Steel

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Examines the way in which modern food production has damaged the balance of human existence. This book reveals that we have yet to resolve a centuries-old dilemma - one which holds the key to a host of current problems, from obesity, the inexorable rise of the supermarkets, to the destruction of the natural world.

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Hungry City by Carolyn Steel

Examines the way in which modern food production has damaged the balance of human existence. This book reveals that we have yet to resolve a centuries-old dilemma - one which holds the key to a host of current problems, from obesity, the inexorable rise of the supermarkets, to the destruction of the natural world.
Carolyn Steel is an architect, lecturer and writer. Since training at Cambridge, she has combined architectural practice with teaching and research into the everyday lives of cities, running design studios at the LSE, Metropolitan University and at Cambridge, where her lecture course 'Food and the City' is an established part of the degree programme. As well as being a director of Cullum and Nightingale Architects, she was a Rome scholar, has written for the architectural press, and has presented on the BBC's One Foot in the Past.
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ISBN 13 9780701180379
ISBN 10 0701180374
Title Hungry City
Author Carolyn Steel
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Year published 2008-06-05
Number of pages 400
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