@article{Man_2013, place={Ithaca, NY, USA}, title={Warhol’s Apiary: A Review of Farming the City}, volume={3}, url={https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/292}, DOI={10.5304/jafscd.2013.034.023}, abstractNote={<p><em>First paragraphs:</em></p><p>The first thing we notice about <em>Farming the City </em>is its hilarious cover: a wire-haired, black-and-tan hog chewing blithely on the side of a wooden roof that presumably shelters its young. Glancing below at the title, we wonder: Is that an urban pig? Is that a public park? Was that lumber pressure-treated?</p><p>The early onset of curiosity here is perhaps apt, anticipating as it does <em>Farming the City</em>’s own sustained wonderment with food. Yes, here is a volume that does not (that cannot!) understate its infatuation with the beauty of planted and four-legged (and two-legged) things. Printed with vegetable-based inks on surplus paper, fully one-third of the book’s pages are filled with sumptuous photographs: oyster mushrooms growing from PVC pipes in cool, protected alleys; rooftop beehives plastered with Warholesque renderings; great trees in Central Tokyo sagging with bright orange persimmons. Thumbing through the pages, you think: It is a wondrous place, Earth!</p><p><em>Farming the City </em>is "a compilation of explanations, insights, case studies, exemplars and critical analysis from practitioners and experts in the food field" (p. 7). <span style="color: black;">It also "outlines ways of using food as a tool to approach the many challenges inherent in contemporary urban life from a human, locally-oriented perspective" (p. 3). Well, in addition, "it aims to trace a path towards a socially, culturally and economically resilient society; a place where inclusive, locally-oriented modes of production are not only possible, but preferable" (p. 3). Which is to say that "the key question is: how can innovative food initiatives contribute to the re-interpretation and reshaping of urban dynamics in a physical, economic, social and technological sense" (p. 227).</span></p><p><span>If you haven’t gone to lie down in a quiet place by now and are still reading, that probably means you are not new to the popular literature on urbanism (-ization, -ists, et al.).... </span></p>}, number={4}, journal={Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development}, author={Man, Christian}, year={2013}, month={Sep.}, pages={33–34} }