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Web End = Jennifer Cockrall-King: Food and the city: Urban agriculture and the new food revolution
Prometheus books, New York, 2012, 372 pp, ISBN: 1-61614-458-6
Sarah James1
Published online: 15 December 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
The rising interest in urban food production in the global north has emerged, Cockrall-King suggests, seemingly overnight and out of nowhere. The construction of the city as the most man-made of all environments has been suddenly thrown into disarray, with community gardens, rooftop beehives, and backyard chickens springing up on suburban streets and vacant urban lots across the most industrialized and developed nations on Earth. Food journalist Cockrall-King seeks to understand this phenomenon in her book, Food and the City. She examines the implications it might have for the future of our cities and our food systems.
The book comprises fteen chapters. The rst four chaptersThe faade of the modern grocery store, Industrial food, Industrial eaters, and A world in food crisisoutline concerns with the modern food system. While there is not much here that will be new to scholars in this area, these chapters offer a readable and engaging summation of the arguments of the likes of Pollan (2007) and Patel (2007) on the woes of the agri-industrial food system.
Cockrall-King then moves onto the rise of what she terms the new food movement, with its focus on local food production and in particular urban agriculture in the developed world. Over the next nine chapters she explores case studies of urban agricultural development, focusing predominantly on examples from North America and Europe. These case studies...