Feeding Gotham: the political economy and geography of food in New York, 1790-1860

Part 1: Political economy of urban provisioning.

1. Is access to food a public good? From public market to free-market system, 1790-1860

Part 2: Public market system of provisioning, 1790s-1820s.

2. The landscape of municipal food access

3. Constraints of time: public market schedule provisioning

4. Catherine Market and its neighborhood

Part 3: Free-market system of provisioning, 1830s-1850s.

5. Withdraw the bungling hand of goverment: free-market geography of provisioning

6. The price of deregulation: food access and living standards.