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How Urbanism Changes Foodways

How Urbanism Changes Foodways

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  • Release Date: 08/01/2026
  • Barcode: 9781009564922
  • Genre: Non-Fiction
  • Sub-Genre: Society & Culture
  • Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
How Urbanism Changes Foodways

How Urbanism Changes Foodways

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The advent of urbanism had profound impacts on landscape management, agricultural production, food preservation, and cuisine. This Element examines the 6,000-year history of urbanism through the archaeological perspective of food, using the analysis of cooking and eating vessels, botanical remains, and animal bones along with texts and iconographic evidence to understand the foodways that spurred and accompanied the growth of cities. Human-environmental changes took place as farmers became fewer in number but increasingly essential as providers of food for city-based consumers. The Element also examines the ways in which cities today share patterns of food production and consumption with the first urban settlements, and that we can address questions of sustainability, nutritional improvement, and other desired outcomes by recognizing how the growth of cities has resulted in distinct constraints and opportunities related to food.

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