carolyn steel sitopia
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Carolyn Steel Sitopia presentation to udss 2011 (filetype: pdf)TRANSCRIPT
Shanghai
Mato Grosso, Brazil
Urban paradox
Fertile Crescent
Ur, 2000 BC
Rome, 300 AD
Ancient food miles
Von Thünen – Isolated State
17th century London grain markets
17th century London fish markets
17th century London meat markets
Smithfield 1830
Bruegel – Fight between Carnival and Lent, 1559
Great Western Railway, 1840
Growth of London 1840-1929
‘Levittown’, New York 1949
Food in boxes
People in boxes
Seasonality
Supermarket urbanism
Food deserts
Obesity
you are what you eat you eat where you live
19 million hectares of rainforest lost each year
20 million hectares existing arable degraded
every calorie of food takes ten to produce
half the food produced in the USA wasted
a billion worldwide overweight, a billion hungry
70 percent freshwater used for agriculture
$200 hamburgers
McGlobe
The Ideal State?
Ebenezer Howard – Garden Cities, 1902
Letchworth Garden City, 1910
Frank Lloyd Wright, Broadacre City, 1932-59
Meeting the neighbours
Utopia = ‘Good place’ or ‘No place’
from Greek eu, good + topos
or ou, no + topos
Sitopia = ‘Food place’
from Greek sitos, food + topos, place
Urban food cycle
Social food networks
USA Britain
Egypt Italy
Food culture Hungry Planet – Peter Menzel
Farming
USA Britain
Egypt Italy
Shopping
USA Britain
Egypt Italy
Eating
USA Britain
Egypt Italy
eating
Food values
saving growing
buying
cooking
Seeing through food
A good life
Sitopia matrix
Wrong question
?
Thinking through food
?
Lorenzetti - Allegory of the Effects of Good Government
Vertical farms
Scale
x1000 to feed London
Semi-Lattice Christopher Alexander – A City is Not a Tree
Food Chain Consolidation Jan-Willem Grievink
Food networks
Monopoly
Food and Power
Democracy
Park Slope Food Coop, NYC
Julie Brown – Food Zones
Permaculture
Interdependence Forest Garden
Closing the loop
Paris Gennevilliers, 1877 Dutch Polders, 1595
Urban farming
Havana, 2010 London, 1940
Detroit reborn?
This is unsustainable….
…the future?
Sitopia?
www.hungrycitybook.co.uk