- Title
- Jane Jacob and designing diversity: investigating gastronomic quarters and food courts of shopping malls and vitality of public spaces
- Creator
- Mand, Harpreet; Cilliers, Steani
- Relation
- International Conference on Designing Food and Designing for Food. Conference Proceedings: International Conference on Designing Food and Designing for Food (London 28-29 June, 2012)
- Publisher
- London Metropolitan University
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- The production, sale and consumption of food have traditionally been central and integrated parts of the public realm. However, food spaces are generally designed as segregated domains and thus don’t connect with their urban context in an organic manner, or they are designed as privatised exclusive enclaves within shopping malls, thus having a detrimental impact on the vitality of surrounding public spaces. In recent years, a revival of food-centered spaces in cities around the world has tried to re-establish a sustainable connection between food and urban space. Jane Jacobs, in her famous book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, established the framework for analysis of dynamic diversity in cities. This paper investigates two models of food-centered space within the city—the gastronomic quarter of the city and the food court of the shopping mall—and establishes the differences and connections between the two environments. Using Jacobs’ theory of diversity, it analyses these spaces and evaluates their contribution to the vitality of the public realm. The intention is to highlight the need for further research into the field of food-centered urban space in order to create economically and socially sustainable architectural and urban design responses to the way in which food production and consumption integrates with the city.
- Subject
- diversity; food-centred space; public realm; gastronomic quarters; food quarters
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1326477
- Identifier
- uon:25437
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781907675188
- Language
- eng
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