Urbanibalism

The city devouring itself

References

Books of botany, old herbaria and bestiaria, newspaper articles and philosophical novels, art exhibitions and city cartographies that particularly inspired us.



Alexander Woywodt, Geophagia: The History of Earth Eating, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Volume 95, March 2002
Wietske Maas & Matteo Pasquinelli, “Manifesto of Urban Cannibalism”, in: Brigitte van der Sande (ed.), Food for the City: A Future for the Metropolis, Rotterdam: NAi, 2012.
On the Nature of Things, Titus Lucretius Carus, translated by William Ellery Leonard, Project Gutenberg, 1997
Arts Holland, issue 1, 2012
Food for the City. A future for the Metropolis Edited by Brigitte van der Sande, NAi, Rotterdam, 2012
The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses Juhani Pallasmaa, Third edition, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Cornwall, 2012
Eugene Marais, The Soul of the White Ant (original title: Die Siel van die Mier, translated from Afrikaans by Winifred De Kok), London, 1937.
Piero Camporesi, Bread of Dreams: food and fantasy in early modern Europe translated from the Italian by David Gentilcore; 1989, Il Pane Selvaggio; 1980.
Bermtoerisme / Roadside verge tourism
Eduard Manet Still Life with Eel and Red mullet, oil on canvas, 1864 (collection Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
O.M. Ungers, Morphologie. City Metaphors,Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Köln, 1. Auflage 1982, 2. Auflage 2011
Maria Kaika, City of Flows: Modernity, Nature, and the City, Routledge, New York, 2005
Alan Davidson, The Oxford Companion to Food, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999
Andrew Dalby, The Tastes of Byzantium: the cuisine of a legendary empire, Prospect Books, London, 2003
Vogels Bijvoeren The Dutch 'Winter Food Commission' feeds & hospitalises hungry birds in harsh winters. Archival film, 1979 (via Vroege Vogels)
FAMA Survival Guide Sarajevo, distributed by Workman Publishing, Printed in Croatia, 1993
Oswald de Andrade, Manifesto Antropófago. Cannibalist Manifesto, 1928. Translated by Leslie Barry, 1991
Urbanibalism interview by Floor Tinga, "De Eetbare Stad" in Voedsel, S+RO, 29 October 2010.
Bodem Kwaliteit Kaart (soil quality map), Gemeente Amsterdam
Irma Driessen, Tubelight, Gezien en Bevonden: Nature Vivant
Boskoi, a mobile phone application for finding edible urban wild-food sources — combining the ancient skills of foragers with current open source media.
Georges Bataille, “The Language of Flowers” in Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939. Translated by Allan Stoekl with Carl R. Lovitt and Donald M. Leslie, Jr. University of Minnesota, 1985.
Charlie Chaplin, "Eating Machine", Modern Times, 1936.
Geoff Manaugh, "Quarantined Utopia", Future Metro, online magazine, August 2010.
Floor Tinga, online article: 'De Eetbare Stad', Ruimtezicht, August 2010.
Armen-Apotheek voor de provincie Utrecht (Pharmacopoea Pauperum, Provinciae Rheno-Trajectinae), 1830.
Utrecht (Consules et senatores Reipublicae Ultrajectinae), Pharmacopoea Ultrajectina, Trajecti ad Rhenum: apud Theodorum ab Ackersdyck, Utrecht, 1656.
Vincent M. Holt, Why Not Eat Insects?, Oxford: Thorton's, 1995 (Originally printed 1885).
William Purvis, Lichens, London: Matural History Museum, 2000.
Soylent Green (1973) Science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer
Musée des Plantes Médicinales et de la Pharmacie / Museum van Geneeskrachtige Planten en Pharmacie, l'Université Libre de Bruxelles
H. G. Wells, Anticipations of the reaction of mechanical and scientific progress on human life and thought London: Harper & Row, 1901.
A. Geurts, Oorlogs-kookboek [War cookbook], Roermond: Romen, 1940.
Peter Williams, Snail, London: Reaktion Books, 2009. Beyond the shell and slime.
Wietske Maas & Matteo Pasquinelli, “The City Devouring Itself: Urbanibalism in Times of World Wars, Insurgent Communes and Biopolitical Sieges”, in: J. Seijdel and L. Melis (eds), Open #18: 2030 - War Zone Amsterdam, Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2009
Felix Guattari Les trois écologies, Editions Galilée, 1989, trans. by Ian Pindar & Paul Sutton, The Three Ecologies, London: Continuum books, 2008.
M S Lovell, The Edible Molluscks of Great Britain and Ireland with Recipes for Cooking Them, 1867.
Cabinet magazine, Brooklyn, NY-based non-profit art & culture periodical in a language you can chew.
Urban Edibles, FoAM lab a growing map marking food sources in public space in and around Amsterdam.
Jacob Meydenbach, Ortus sanitatis: de herbis et plantis, de animalibus et reptilibus Strasbourg: Reinhard Beck, anno 1491
Volume #18: After Zero, Amsterdam: Archis Publisher, 2008.
Carolyn Steel, Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives, Chatto & Windus: London, 2008.
Amir Djalali with Piet Vollaard, “The Complex History of Sustainability”, in: Volume #18: After Zero, Amsterdam: Archis Publisher, 2008.
Matteo Pasquinelli, Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons, Rotterdam: NAi Publishers / Institute of Network Cultures, 2008.
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932
Koos Bosma, Schuilstad: Bescherming van de bevolking tegen luchtaanvallen, Uitgeverij Sun, Amsterdam 2006.
Plants for a Future, a web database for edible and otherwise useful plants.
Paracelsus: Father of toxicology, Einsiedeln, Switzerland 1493* - Salzburg, Austria 1541
Piero Camporesi, The Land of Hunger, Polity Press, 1996. Originally published in Italian as Il Paese della fame, 1978.
Herbert Sukopp, "The City as a Subject for Ecological Research" originally published in German in 1973 translated into English in Urban Ecology: an international perspective on the interactions between humans and nature, Springer, 2008
Herbet Sukopp, On the early history of urban ecology in Europe, Institute of Ecology, Technical University Berlin, 2002
Remco Daalder, Stadse Beesten, Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Bas Lubberhuizen, 2005.
Carl Kerenyi, Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life, Translated from German by Ralph Manheim, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1976
Martha Díaz-Betancourt at alii, Weeds as a future source for human consumption, Veracruz, Mexico: Instituto de Ecologia, 2008.
Daniel Birnbaum & Anders Olsoon, As a Weasel Sucks Eggs. An Essay on Melancholy and Cannibalism, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2008.
Wouter van der Weijden, Rob Leewis and Pieter Bol, Biological Globalisation: Bio-invasions and their impacts on nature, the economy and public health, Zeist, NL: KNNV Publishing, 2007.
Johnathan & Shelagh Routh, Note di cucina di Leonardo da Vinci, Rome: Voland, 2005.
J. Horwitz & P. Singley (eds.) Eating Architecture, Cambridge, Massachusetts London: MIT Press, 2004.
Claire Preston, Bee, Reaktion books, London, 2006.
Johan van Zoest & Martin Melchers, Leven in de Stad: Betekenis en toepassing van natuur in de stedelijke omgeving [Life in the city: senses of nature in the urban environment], Utrecht: KNNV uitgeverij, 2006
Nik Heynen, Maria Kaika & Erik Swyngedouw (eds), In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism, London and New York: Routledge, 2005.
Nichola Fletcher, Charlemagne's Tablecloth: A Piquant History of Feasting, London: St. Martin's Press, 2005.
Gilles Clément, Manifeste du Tiers Paysage, Paris: Éditions Sujet/Objet, 2004.
Liesbeth M. Helmus (ed.), Vis: stillevens van hollandse en vlaamse meesters, 1550-1700, Utrecht: Centraal Museum, 2004.
Ton Denters, Stadsplanten: veldgids voor de stad, s'Graveland: Fontaine uitgevers, 2004
Giorgio Samorini, Animali che si drogano, Vicenza: Telesterion, 2000. Trans. by T. Calliope: Animals and Psychedelics: The Natural World and the Instinct to Alter Consciousness, Rochester (VT): Park Street, 2002.
Manuel De Landa, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History, New York: Zone Books, 1997.
H. van Genderen, L.M. Schoonhoven, A. Fuchs., Chemisch-ecologische Flora van Nederland en België, Utrecht: KNNV uitgeverij, 1996.
Martin Melchers & Geert Timmermans, Haring in het Ij, Amsterdam: Stadsuitgeverij, 1991.
Michel Serres, Le Parasite, Paris: Grasset, 1980; trans. by Lawrence R. Schehr: The Parasite, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière, Manuel des amphitryons: contenant un traité de la dissection des viandes à table, la nomenclature des menus les plus nouveaux pour chaque saison, et des élémens [sic] de politesse gourmande..., Paris: Capelle et Renand, 1808 / Editions A.M. Métailié, 1983.