Food and Society in the American City

Robert Lemon: I am a contemporary cultural and urban geographer. My academic expertise is on space, place, and landscape through the lens of social practices. I evaluate social practices to elucidate cultural landscape patterns. And, I look at how social practices shape a city’s architecture and urban form. My work cuts across foodways, Latin American migration, communication geography (e.g. social media), landscape contestation, neoliberalism, cosmopolitanism and the right to the city. Although my academic writings are mostly conceptual, I am grounded in the fundamentals of urban and environmental design, and city planning.