From polis — Mobile Placemaking and The Web-Enabled Food Vendor

Off the Grid, a weekly street-food event in San Francisco.

Cities across the United States are becoming hotbeds for mobile-food entrepreneurs benefiting from an online social networking culture. The mobile food-vending phenomenon is a rich environment for examining the development of technical, social and economic dimensions of contemporary urban life through the mobilization of services and social activity in both virtual and physical space. Although the number of mobile food vendors in cities has nearly doubled over the past decade, few studies have addressed this trend’s impact on the current and future urban fabric. More at: polis: Mobile Placemaking and the Web-Enabled Food Vendor