Integrating Food into Urban Planning

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cabannes, Yves, author.

Marocchino, Cecilia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Political institutions.

Metropolitan areas.

Metropolitan government.

Food security.

Food supply.

Sustainable development.

Local Subjects:

Political institutions.

Physical Description:

xxv, 347 pages 1 electronic resource

Place of Publication:

UCL Press 2018

London : UCL Press, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The integration of food into urban planning is a crucial and emerging topic. Urban planners, alongside the local and regional authorities that have traditionally been less engaged in food-related issues, are now asked to take a central and active part in understanding how food is produced, processed, packaged, transported, marketed, consumed, disposed of and recycled in our cities. While there is a growing body of literature on the topic, the issue of planning cities in such a way they will increase food security and nutrition, not only for the affluent sections of society but primarily for the poor, is much less discussed, and much less informed by practices. This volume, a collaboration between the Bartlett Development Planning Unit at UCL and the Food Agricultural Organisation, aims to fill this gap by putting more than 20 city-based experiences in perspective, including studies from Toronto, New York City, Portland and Providence in North America; Milan in Europe and Cape Town in Africa; Belo Horizonte and Lima in South America; and, in Asia, Bangkok and Tokyo. By studying and comparing cities of different sizes, from both the Global North and South, in developed and developing regions, the contributors collectively argue for the importance and circulation of global knowledge rooted in local food planning practices, programmes and policies.

Contents:

Introduction: food challenges faced by an urbanising world

Food and urban planning: the missing link

Articulating public agencies, experts, corporations, civil society and the informal sector in planning food systems in Bangkok

Edible providence: integrating local food into urban planning

Connecting food systems and urban planning: the experience of Portland, Oregon

Urban agriculture in Lima metropolitan area: one (short) step forward, two steps backward - the limits of urban food planning

Growing food connections through planning: lessons from the United States

Food flows and waste: planning for the dirty side of urban food security

Planning a local and global foodscape: Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo

Improving urban food security in African cities: critically assessing the role of informal retailers

Integrating food distribution and food accessibility into municipal planning: achievements and challenges of a Brazilian metropolis, Belo Horizonte

Making food markets work: towards participatory planning and adaptive governance

Formalisation of fresh food markets in China: the story of Hangzhou

Food asset mapping in Toronto and Greater Golden Horseshoe region

Greater Milan's foodscape: a neo-rural metropolis

Participatory planning for food production at city scale: experiences from a stakeholder dialogue process in Tamale, Northern Ghana

Unintentional food zoning: a case study of East Harlem, New York.

Notes:

Includes index.

CC BY-SA

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781787353794

1787353796

9781787353770

178735377X

9781787353763

1787353761

9789251310823

9251310823

OCLC:

1076881821