Chapter 3 The integration of food and agriculture into urban planning and design practices

Nasr, Joe; Komisar, June

doi:10.3920/978-90-8686-187-3_3

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“…Nasr and Komisar (2012) describe their collaborative activities and research on food system planning as "exemplary" and "cutting edge" (p. 50). Within Region of Waterloo Public Health, the Healthy Eating and Active Communities Team, led by Katherine Pigott, has been a facilitator of a healthy community food system since 2000.…”

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Building Effective Relationships for Community-Engaged Scholarship in Canadian Food Studies

Andrée

Chapman²,

Hawkins³

et al. 2014

CanFoodStudies

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How can community-engaged scholars best undertake grounded, policy-relevant, food systems research and teaching in ways that support the capacity of-and meaningfully build on-the experiences of civil society organizations working on these issues in Canada? This paper analyzes four case studies in the context of a research project that brings together members of the Canadian Association for Food Studies and Food Secure Canada. One case was led by Region of CFS /RCÉA P. Andrée et al. Vol. 1, No. 1, May 2014 28Waterloo Public Health and faculty from the University of Waterloo; a second by the Food Security Research Network at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay and the North Superior Workforce Planning Board; a third by the national student organization Meal Exchange and Ryerson University in Toronto; and a fourth by the BC Food Systems Network. We argue that the answer to the question above lies in establishing respectful relationships and recognizing the different cultures involved, and we offer five methodological insights for building effective relationships in practice. The first is the need to disaggregate the concept of 'community' in order to acknowledge the distinct needs and assets of the diverse organizations and populations involved. Our second and third insights are linked: Establish the relationship around a shared vision, and then negotiate mutually-beneficial teaching or research projects. Fourth, practitioners should approach community-campus engagement through the framework of contextual fluidity, which includes seeing the relationships and the vision at the heart of the work, while remaining open to shifts and new opportunities. Finally, adopting community capacity building practices helps practitioners realize their shared vision.

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Building Effective Relationships for Community-Engaged Scholarship in Canadian Food Studies

Andrée

Chapman²,

Hawkins³

et al. 2014

CanFoodStudies

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“…It is a food system that both ensures the provision of food in a way that is relatively accessible to the poorer urban eaters and creates a large number of livelihood opportunities in urban and rural areas. Unlike the relatively young alternative food networks and urban food planning initiatives that have attracted attention in Europe, North America and elsewhere [4,37,38], what we see in the foodscape of Dar es Salaam has a long track record of delivering food at a city feeding scale and doing this in a way that makes a substantial contribution to rural development. It is also not a static system; it is evolving, not least through the substantial increases in total production to keep pace with the needs of a fast-growing city.…”

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Exploring the Staple Foodscape of Dar es Salaam

Wegerif

Wiskerke

2017

Sustainability

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The city region foodscape is a relational space of spatially proximate as well as more distant relations. The current understanding of city region foodscapes will be enhanced by more analyses of what is happening in the African and Asian cities where rapid population growth and urbanization, with all its challenges and opportunities, is predominantly taking place. This paper explores the city foodscape of one such city, the rapidly growing Dar es Salaam with over 4.5 million inhabitants. By following some important foods for eaters in the city, this paper draws a picture of the changing shape and nature of Dar es Salaam's foodscape and draws out lessons for debates on city region food systems and urban food planning. It is found that key staple foods are coming from the rural hinterland through a food system that is not part of or modeled on the globally dominant corporate food system and as such represents a working alternative. This food system neither fits within administrative boundaries nor relies primarily on local production. We argue that more academic and policy attention needs to be given to understanding and reinforcing such middle-ground, neither local nor global, food systems that are delivering at city feeding scale.

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“…It may be astounding that teaching and learning of and about GI seems not to have gained a more prominent role in planning curricula to date. Yet, given Nasr and Komisar's (2012) findings that integration of an interdisciplinary field into design and planning education (referring to food planning) is challenging, it should not come as a surprise that GI has not been able to establish itself more firmly as a core planning theme.…”

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More Than Open Space! The Case for Green Infrastructure Teaching in Planning Curricula

Frank

Flynn

Hacking

et al. 2021

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Since the mid-1990s, the concept of Green Infrastructure (GI) has been gaining traction in fields such as ecology and forestry, (landscape) architecture, environmental and hydrological engineering, public health as well as urban and regional planning. Definitions and aims ascribed to GI vary. Yet, agreement broadly exists on GI’s ability to contribute to sustainability by means of supporting, for example, biodiversity, human and animal health, and storm water management as well as mitigating urban heat island effects. Given an acknowledged role of planners in delivering sustainable cities and towns, professional bodies have highlighted the need for spatial planners to understand and implement GI. This raises questions of what sort of GI knowledge planners may require and moreover by whom and how GI knowledge and competencies may be conveyed? Examining knowledge and skills needs vis-à-vis GI education opportunities indicates a provision reliant primarily on continued professional education and limited ad hoc opportunities in Higher Education. The resulting knowledge base appears fragmented with limited theoretical foundations leading the authors to argue that a systematic inclusion of green infrastructure knowledges in initial planning education is needed to promote and aid effective GI implementation.

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Chapter 3 The integration of food and agriculture into urban planning and design practices

Cited by 10 publications

References 4 publications

Building Effective Relationships for Community-Engaged Scholarship in Canadian Food Studies

Building Effective Relationships for Community-Engaged Scholarship in Canadian Food Studies

Exploring the Staple Foodscape of Dar es Salaam

More Than Open Space! The Case for Green Infrastructure Teaching in Planning Curricula

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