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1021070 CTYXXX10.1177/15356841211021070City & CommunityBook Reviews book-review2021 Book Reviews City & Community 2021, Vol. 20(3) 289 –292 Book Reviews © American Sociological Association 2021 journals.sagepub.com/home/cty https://doi.org/10.1177/15356841211021070 The Problem with Feeding Cities: The Social What is singularly insightful about this vol- Transformation of Infrastructure, Abundance, and ume is that it disaggregates the food system, Inequality in America, by Andrew Deener. Chicago, showing how supplying cities with grains or IL: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 319 meats, about which much has been written pp. $32.50 (paperback). ISBN: 9780226703077. (e.g. Cronon 1992; Steel 2008), is quite differ- ent from feeding cities fresh fruits and vegeta- Reviewed by: Krishnendu Ray, New York bles. The latter has different shapes, rigidity, University, New York City, NY, USA and give; ripening and rotting patterns; and DOI: 10.1177/15356841211021070 requirements for storage, refrigeration, and packaging, which inordinately complicates British architect and urban planner Carolyn supply chains. The system is still different Steel (2008) argues that it was grain, trans- from servicing cities with water and electric- ported over waterways, that made the ancient ity, which are uniform goods of another kind. city and it was meat delivered along railroads The American system was built to provide that built the
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