Integrating Food into Urban Planning

by Yves Cabannes (Editor), Cecilia Marocchino (Editor)

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 the way food is produced, processed, packaged, transported, marketed, consumed, disposed of, and recycled in our cities.

Despite a growing body of literature on food and cities, the issue of planning cities in such a way that they will increase food security and nutrition not only for the affluent segments of society but also the poor, is much less discussed and much informed by practice. This volume fills this gap by putting more than twenty cities’ experiences in Toronto, New York, Providence, and Portland; Cape Town and Ghana in Africa; Milan in Europe; Lima and Belo Horizonte in South America; and, in Asia, Tokyo and Bangkok, Solo, and Yogyakarta in Indonesia.
 

360 pages, Paperback

Published March 15, 2019

Reviews

[Toka · Rating 5 out of 5]

An exceptional book that explores the 'whats' and 'whys' of integrating food into urban planning, and most importantly the 'hows.' The book features 16 chapters, incorporating 15 distinct case studies from both the global South and North, which effectively encapsulate the central theme. Highly recommended for urbanists, policy advisors, or anyone interested in a sustainable future where food sovereignty is realized.