Carolyn Steel is a leading thinker on food and cities. Her 2008 book, Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives, has gained broad recognition among architects, urbanists ecologists, and food professionals, as has her concept of “sitopia” (food place). Steel has lectured at the University of Cambridge and London Metropolitan University in the UK and Wageningen University in the Netherlands and was the inaugural Studio Director of the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics. She is also a Director at Kilburn Nightingale Architects, London. An internationally in-demand speaker, Steel’s 2009 TEDTalk, “How Food Shapes Our Cities,” has been widely viewed. Her next book, Sitopia, is forthcoming from Chatto & Windus in March 2020.