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Exhibit News

+ Carrot City Birmingham now open!

Carrot City Birmingham events will take place in THREE locations!

Date: April 6 - April 20, 2012
Location: Millenium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham, B4 7XG, UK

Date: April 23 - May 6, 2012
Location: Edible Eastside, 122 Fazeley Street, Birmingham, B5 5RS, UK

Date: May 8 - May 31, 2012
Location: MADE, 7 Newhall Square, Birmingham, B3 1RU, UK

+ Poster from Carrot City Birmingham
+ Images from Carrot City Birmingham
     

Credits and Sponsors

Organizers

Professor Peter Larkham
Michael Hardman

Working Grouping Members

Michael Dring (BIAD)
Miles Marshall (BIAD)
Jayne Bradley (Edible Eastside)
David Tittle (MADE)

+ Carrot City Erfurt Opens Friday June 29, 2012

Date: June 29 - July 15, 2012
Location: Main Station, Erfurt, Germany

Presented in conjunction with Die Produktive Stadt

+ Carrot City Amersfoort Opens Monday June 4, 2012

Date: June 4 - June 22, 2012
Location: De Boot Schipbreuk, Kleine Koppel, Amersfoort, The Netherlands

Presented in conjunction with Die Produktive Stadt

Credits and Sponsors

Co-Curators

Carolin Mees, Mees Architecture
Christa Müller, Anstiftung & Ertomis
Katrin Bohn, TU Berlin, Fachgebiet "Stadt & Ernährung"
Stefanie Hennecke, TU München, Fachgebiet Geschichte und Theorie der Landschaftsarchitektur

Technical Support

Nishat Awan, TU Berlin, Fachgebiet "Stadt & Ernährung"
Karolina Hasenstab, TU Berlin, Fachgebiet "Stadt & Ernährung"
Kristian Ritzmann, TU Berlin, Fachgebiet "Stadt & Ernährung"
Ella von der Haide, Eine Andere Welt ist Pflanzbar

+ Carrot City Paris Opens Thursday June 23, 2012

Date: June 23 - September 30, 2012
Location: Chai du Parc de Bercy, 12e arrondissement, Paris

+ Carrot City will be exhibited in Strasbourg, France in the fall of 2012

Date and Location of Exhibit: To Be Announced

+ Carrot City will be exhibited in Lyon, France at the end of 2012

Date and Location of Exhibit: To Be Announced

Book News

+ Carrot City reviewed in The Dirt

2012 05 02
Reviewed in The New Era of Urban Agriculture
Read the review here

+ Carrot City reviewed in Green Book Reviews

2012 04 09
Reviewed by Megan Herod
Read the review here

+ Carrot City reviewed in A Weekly Dose of Architecture
+ Carrot City reviewed in She Does the City

2012 03 12
Reviewed by Kait Fowlie in "Get Stoked for Spring Sprouting: Pick up Carrot City, the Urban Agriculture and Design Book"
Read the review here

+ Carrot City reviewed in The Globe and Mail

2012 02 16
Reviewed by Carolyn Ireland in "A book that aims to bring the farm to the city"
Read the review here

+ Carrot City reviewed in the New York Times

2012 01 27
Appearing in the article Tending the Soul, And Earthly Gardens, page WE2 New York Times - Jan. 29, 2012
Read the review here

+ Carrot City named one of the top 10 food books of the year by The Atlantic!

2011 12 23
Reviewed by Toronto-based food writer Sarah Elton
See her picks here

+ Carrot City listed in Landscape Invocation's Notable Books of 2011

2012 01 09
Carrot City: Creating Places for Urban Agriculture was included in this list by this blog on landscape architecutre issues.

+ Carrot City in City Farmer News
+ Carrot City reviewed in 66 Square Feet

2011 12 12
Carrot City reviewed on this New York City blog
Read the review here

+ Carrot City in PWL Partnership's News

2011 12 08
PWL Partnership, contributors to the Southeast False Creek neighbourhood (see the board in the Cities Category) give a favourable mention to Carrot City: Creating Places for Urban Agriculture on their website
See it here

+ Carrot City reviewed in The Design Observer

2011 10 03
Reviewed by John Thackara in The Design Observer
Read the review here