Lau Melissa Xin Yee

Harvest Hongkong: Designing a Community-based Food Producing Infrastructure

  30% of the current global food supply is controlled by just 30 companies. This extensively centralized system causes a great impact on us and our ecosystem. Industrial agriculture and the transportation of food trade alone contribute to 17% of

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Harvest Hongkong: Designing a Community-based Food Producing Infrastructure

  30% of the current global food supply is controlled by just 30 companies. This extensively centralized system causes a great impact on us and our ecosystem. Industrial agriculture and the transportation of food trade alone contribute to 17% of

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Urbanism in a Plate: Rediscover the Pleasures of Food

“Eating with the fullest pleasure, is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world.” – Wendell Berry   Thesis Statement   {Sentiment}   For the typical city dweller, the pleasures of food are often neglected due to the

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Urbanism in a Plate: Rediscover the Pleasures of Food

“Eating with the fullest pleasure, is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world.” – Wendell Berry   Thesis Statement   {Sentiment}   For the typical city dweller, the pleasures of food are often neglected due to the

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Urbanism in a Plate: Rediscover the Pleasures of Food

“Eating with the fullest pleasure, is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world.” – Wendell Berry   Thesis Statement   {Sentiment} For the typical city dweller, the pleasures of food are often neglected due to the highly

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Urbanism in a Plate: Rediscover the Pleasures of Food

“Eating with the fullest pleasure, is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world.” – Wendell Berry   Thesis Statement   {Sentiment} For the typical city dweller, the pleasures of food are often neglected due to the highly

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Food As Part of the Community’s Infrastructural System

A. Thesis Statement Food has always been the keystone of community‐building. From farmlands to market places, and from kitchens to dining places, these spatial typologies are linked by intricate logistics and social interplay. Together they form the ‘food infrastructure’. The

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Food As Part of the Community’s Infrastructural System

A. Thesis Statement Food has always been the keystone of community‐building. From farmlands to market places, and from kitchens to dining places, these spatial typologies are linked by intricate logistics and social interplay. Together they form the ‘food infrastructure’. The

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