

An edition of Magical Foodscape (2024)
A Guidebook for Re-planning the Cities Base on the Culture, Food and the Built Environment
By Xiwei Shen
Publish Date
11 June 2024
Publisher
Pensoft Publishers
Language
eng
Pages
154
Description:
Under the COVID-19 epidemic, the common problem faced by different countries and regions — food shortage, stimulates us to reflect on the place of food in urban life. Through our investigation on Shanghai, Xi’an, Wuhan and Chengdu, four cities that featured by different and distinctive food culture, exploration of the distribution pattern and potential of grain origin, delivery chain, processing chain and retailors in these cities, we intend to take urban green space as carrier to improve efficiency of food production, absorption and processing, alleviate food problems under social crisis and improve the city’s ability to respond to social emergency.
subjects: food, city, urban planning