HUNGRY CITY: HOW FOOD SHAPES OUR LIVES
Book ID/图书代码： 07204008B25894
English Summary/英文概要： *Cities cover just 2% of the world’s surface, but consume 75% of the world’s resources
*Global food production increased by 145% in the last 4 decades of the 20th century - yet an estimated 800 million people are still hungry
*In 2005 British supermarkets sent half a million tonnes of edible food to landfill - the whole food sector put together sent 17 million tonnes
*100 years ago, the average Brit ate 25kg of meat each year - now it’s 80kg (and for Americans, 124kg)
*One quarter of the British population is obese - one in three meals we eat is a ready meal WHY? The relationship between food and cities is fundamental to our every day lives. Food shapes cities, and through them, it moulds us – along with the countryside that feeds us. The gargantuan effort necessary to feed cities arguably has a greater social and physical impact on us and our planet than anything else we do. Yet few of us are conscious of the process and we rarely stop to wonder how food reaches our plates.
Hungry City examines the way in which modern food production has damaged the balance of human existence, and reveals that we have yet to resolve a centuries-old dilemma – one which holds the key to a host of current problems, from obesity, the inexorable rise of the supermarkets, to the destruction of the natural world. Carolyn Steel follows food on its journey – from the land (and sea) to market and supermarket, kitchen to table, waste-dump and back again – exploring the historical roots and the contemporary issues at each stage of food’s cycle. She shows how our lives and our environment are being manipulated but explains how we can change things for the better. Original, inspiring and written with infectious enthusiasm and belief, Hungry City illuminates an issue that is fundamental to us all.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 食物与城市之间的纽带是人类的生活之基。食物塑造了城市从而造就了人类。每年它必须花大量的精力来满足城市的无限需求，因此对于人们乃至居住的星球都会产生巨大的社会和物理影响。但很少有人知道这其中的发展过程，也没人探索过食物是怎么来到盘中的。
本书研究了现代食物生产是如何破坏人类生存的平衡，指出我们还有待于解决一个长达百年历史的困境，它是处理大量现存问题的关键。从肥胖人群、超市数量的猛然剧增，到自然界的破坏，作者追踪食物发展道路的轨迹，阐述它的循环，挖掘其历史的根源和每个进化环节中呈现出的新问题。揭示人类的生活和环境是如何相互作用和并存发展的，并解释了人们将事情改变的更加完善的途径。这是一部鼓励人心的原创作品，蕴涵信仰，字里行间充斥一股饱含热情的感染力，是点亮我们生活的启明灯！（ZY）
Awards/获奖情况：`crammed with eye-opening facts and figures, a hugely readable account of the part we individually play in a global problem’ ---Publishing News ’...a very thorough look at land management and food production systems down the ages’---Geographical Magazine
` a very thorough look at land management and food production systems down the ages’---Geographical Magazine
There’s also some good information to be found here: http://www.hungrycitybook.co.uk
About the Author/作者介绍： Carolyn Steel is an architect, lecturer and writer. Since training at Cambridge, she has combined architectural practice with teaching and research into the everyday lives of cities, running design studios at the LSE, Metropolitan University and at Cambridge, where her lecture course ’Food and the City’ is an established part of the degree programme. As well as being a director of Cullum and Nightingale Architects, she was a Rome scholar, has written for the architectural press, and has presented on the BBC’s One Foot in the Past.
Carolyn Steel，建筑师、讲师、作家。自从在剑桥授课以来，她就将建筑上的实践经验结合于教学和对城市的研究之中。在Metropolitan大学运营一家设计工作室。她于剑桥讲授的课程《FOOD AND THE CITY》已设定为学位课程的一部分。她是位罗马学者，也是CULLUM AND NIGHTINGALE ARCHITECTS的主任，为建筑出版社创作，并参与BBC剧目《ONE FOOT IN THE PAST》。
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