The 4/2022 issue is dedicated to the “Food and urban transformations. Variants of foodification” topic, and was managed by Panos Bourlessas, Mirella Loda and Matteo Puttilli as guest editors. The five original papers published aim to investigate the processes through which the food entity is increasingly relevant to understanding phenomena shaping the contemporary city. The papers pursue this aim on the one hand by reconstructing the international debate on the subject, on the other by adding new case studies (Florence, Bologna, Turin, Delhi) to those already known. From several points of view, such investigations are useful not simply for enriching the amount and variety of cases, but to some extent also for modifying the dominant paradigm.
Ten reviews are published in the section Bibliographic information - one of which concerns three volumes jointly - among which we like to point out one dedicated to Bruno Latour's latest book; he died just as this issue was being printed, and the review is written by an outstanding author, Giuseppe Dematteis.