ABSTRACT
The relationship of food to urbanism is something the Journal of Urbanism has engaged with in a variety of articles over the years since the Journal was established in 2007. This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores a number of fascinating contemporary issues in food and urbanism. It traces both the place making changes, and the political and economic underpinnings that sit behind often negative urban alterations, through examination of a number of fresh fruits and vegetables’ supply chains. The book explores informal food spaces and flows in everyday life in Islamabad, and likewise makes some absorbing connections between urbanism and everyday life. It focuses on concepts of the interplay of design and conviviality in another context; that of certain urban quarters in Cairo.
