The Problem with Feeding Cities: The Social Transformation of Infrastructure, Abundance, and Inequality in America

by Andrew Deener

For most people, grocery shopping is a mundane activity. Few stop to think about the massive, global infrastructure that makes it possible to buy Chilean grapes in a Philadelphia supermarket in the middle of winter. Yet every piece of food represents an interlocking system of agriculture, manufacturing, shipping, logistics, retailing, and nonprofits that controls what we eat--or don't.

The Problem with Feeding Cities is a sociological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022670291X
• ISBN13: 9780226702919
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"