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Food and the City : histories of culture and cultivation

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"Volume based on papers presented at the symposium 'Food and the City,' held at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., on May 4-5, 2012."

Contents

Introduction : food and the city / Dorothée Imbert
Three acres and a cow? : small-scale agriculture as solution to urban impoverishment in Britain and Germany, 1880-1933 / David H. Haney
Food for the body and the soul : Hebrew-Israeli urban foodscapes / Tal Alon-Mozes
Consuming empire : colonial agriculture under Italian fascism / David Rifkind
The country is the other city of tomorrow? : Le Corbusier's Ferme radieuse and Village Radieux / Mary McLeod
The Landscape of the Dutch IJsselmeer Polders : Amsterdam and Its food supply system, 1930-69 / Zef Hemel
From beets in the Bronx to chard in Chicago : the discourse and practice of growing food in the American city / Laura Lawson and Luke Drake
Urban agriculture in cities of the global South : four logics of integration / Luc J. A. Mougeot
Transforming a hostile environment : Japanese immigrant farmers in metropolitan California / Donna Graves
How Tokyo invented sushi / Jordan Sand
Urban agriculture in the Pearl River Delta / Margaret Crawford
Paris is a land of plenty? : kitchen gardens as urban phenomenon in a modern-era European city (sixteenth through eighteenth centuries) / Florent Quellier
Market gardens in Paris : a circulus intelligent circa 1790-1900 / Susan Taylor-Leduc
Markets and the food landscape in France, 1940-72 / Meredith TenHoor.

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