Food, the city, and the street

Abstract

Food businesses are vital to the development and sustainability of cities, and are essential for the livability and conviviality of urban spheres. The enormous amount of scholarship that analyzes metropolises has often overlooked food as a crucial factor in understanding cities. The following volumes provide rich conceptual and empirical discussions on the ways in which food business influences physical and social environments, as well as public and urban policy. The texts examine both the impact of food businesses vis-a-vis cities from a macro-scale perspective, and the influences that such businesses have on the urban realm from a micro level. Together, they provide a starting point to understand the entangled relationships of food commerce and urbanism. Noah Allison is a doctoral candidate in Urban Policy at The New School in New York City.