Urban food planning : seeds of transition in the Global North / Rositsa T. Ilieva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ilieva, Rositsa T., author.

Series:

Routledge studies in food, society and environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food supply--Developed countries.

Food supply.

Food security--Developed countries.

Food security.

City planning--Developed countries.

City planning.

Developed countries.

Physical Description:

xvii, 267 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

Summary:

This highly original work examines the rise of the urban food planning movement in the Global North and provides insights into the new relationship between cities and food which has started developing over the past decade. It sheds light on cities as new spaces for food system innovation and on food as a tool for sustainable urban development. Drawing insights from the literature on sociotechnical transitions, the book presents examples of pioneering urban food planning endeavours from North America and Western Europe (especially the Netherlands and the UK). These are integrated into a single mosaic helping to uncover the conceptual, analytical, design, and organizational innovations emerging at the interface of food and urban policy and planning. The author shows how promising "seeds of transition" to a shared urban food planning agenda are in the making, though the urban food planning niche as a whole still lacks the necessary maturity to lastingly influence mainstream planning practices and the dominant agrifood system regime. Some of the strategic levers to cope with the current instability and limitations of unbar food planning and effectively transition it from a marginal novelty to a normalized domain of policy, research, and practice are systematically examined to this end. The conclusions and recommendations put forward have major implications for scholars, activists, and public officials seeking to radically transform the coevolution of food, cities, and the environment. Book jacket.

Contents:

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Why urban food planning?

Food and the city of tomorrow

Bridging food and planning

Seeing the city through a food system lens

Urban food planning in the public domain

The untapped potential of new urban development

New governance arenas for food policy and planning

A journey that has just begun

Index.

Notes:

"Earthscan from Routledge".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138998483

1138998486

OCLC:

944381590