Carolyn Steel Sitopia

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?

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