Suburban Food Security: Walkability and Nutritional Access in Metropolitan Detroit

Bastian, Elizabeth; Napieralski, Jacob

doi:10.1080/00330124.2015.1099447

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“…In this sense, the extension of the suburban stain has in the US a significant correlation with the appearance of FD areas [111]. However, in the cases in which low-income social groups inhabit suburban spaces, the problem of access to certain goods can be accentuated [112].…”

Section: Economic Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustaining What Is Unsustainable: A Review of Urban Sprawl and Urban Socio-Environmental Policies in North America and Western Europe

Bueno-Suárez

Coq-Huelva

2020

Sustainability

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Urban sprawl and its economic, social, and environmental consequences are central issues for approaching more sustainable forms of life and production. This review provides a broad theoretical exploration of the main features of urban sprawl but also of sustainable urban policies in Western Europe and North America. Urban sprawl can be observed in both continents, as the search for higher standards of economic, social, and environmental sustainability is also an essential feature of urban governance in the last years. Urban sprawl has been slightly weaker in Western Europe, as its are cities generally more compact. Moreover, in Western Europe, urban sprawl has sometimes been confronted with ex-ante preventive policies. However, in North America, urban sprawl from the 1950s has been an essential element of the social ordering and, thus, of the American way of life. In both cases, urban sprawl has generated successive rounds of accumulation of built capital, which is currently managed in sustainable ways essentially through ex-post and palliative measures, that is, trying to “sustain what is unsustainable”. In other words, the idea is to make urban sprawl more sustainable but without altering its main morphological elements.

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Section: Economic Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustaining What Is Unsustainable: A Review of Urban Sprawl and Urban Socio-Environmental Policies in North America and Western Europe

Bueno-Suárez

Coq-Huelva

2020

Sustainability

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“…Urban design has been shown to be an essential factor in food accessibility [35], yet it is not typically studied in food access research. Space syntax has long been a means to examine how the urban form influences human movement and cognition.…”

Section: Ethnic Food Outletsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Geospatial Analysis of Access to Ethnic Food Retailers in Two Michigan Cities: Investigating the Importance of Outlet Type within Active Travel Neighborhoods

Rybarczyk

Taylor

Brines

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IJERPH

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To date, the research that examines food accessibility has tended to ignore ethnic food outlets. This void leaves us with a limited understanding of how such food stores may, or may not, impact food security. The study discussed herein addressed this by conducting a geospatial assessment of ethnic food outlet accessibility in two U.S. cities: Flint and Grand Rapids, Michigan. We used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools to create a revealed accessibility index for each food outlet, and used the index to determine access within active travel service areas. We utilized an ordinary least squares regression (OLS), and two local models: spatial autoregression (SAR) and geographically weighted regression (GWR) to enhance our understanding of global and localized relationships between outlet accessibility and type (while controlling for known covariates). The results show that the local models outperformed (R2 max = 0.938) the OLS model. The study found that there was reduced access to ethnic restaurants in all service areas of Grand Rapids. However, in Flint, we observed this association in the bicycling areas only. Also notable were the influences that demographic characteristics had on access in each city. Ultimately, the findings tell us that nuanced planning and policy approaches are needed in order to promote greater access to ethnic food outlets and reduce overall food insecurity.

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“…Attempts to shape the broader physical spaces in which nonprofits operate also matter as evidenced by Bastian and Napieralski (), who point out that the shape of the physical environment forms the need for services provided by nonprofits, as in the case of food desserts, and by Hetling and Botein (), who conducted a case study of external influences on program success using a case study of a program of supportive housing for domestic violence victims and found that physical site characteristics were important external influences. Vinokur‐Kaplan and McBeath () examine nonprofit organizations that colocate to save rent and for the physical security and enhanced work environment provided by the density of organizations and find that the organizations are satisfied with the arrangements and want to continue to work in a colocated setting.…”

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A framework for understanding how nonprofits shape our physical environment: Identifying allies in making spaces

Velez

McCartha

2018

Nonprofit Mgmnt & Ldrshp

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Research exists on the role of nonprofits directly shaping open spaces and preserving elements of the built environment, but the larger landscape of nonprofits that directly and indirectly shape the larger physical environment is less well understood. Although legislation exists to help protect and preserve natural spaces, nonprofits play a crucial role in carrying out work to protect and shape the natural and built components of the physical environment. Furthermore, nonprofit work that shapes public spaces is, by default, an attempt to reshape social environments and values through interventions in the physical environment. This is particularly important as the relationship between the physical environment and societal outcomes related to public health, human behavior, and sustainability is clear. Using past research by the authors, a review of related literature, and a localized case study, we refine a theoretical framework to better describe and understand the breadth of nonprofits that are shaping the physical environment. In doing so, we create a tool to help nonprofit managers identify and better engage allied stakeholders.

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Suburban Food Security: Walkability and Nutritional Access in Metropolitan Detroit

Cited by 20 publications

References 53 publications

Sustaining What Is Unsustainable: A Review of Urban Sprawl and Urban Socio-Environmental Policies in North America and Western Europe

Sustaining What Is Unsustainable: A Review of Urban Sprawl and Urban Socio-Environmental Policies in North America and Western Europe

A Geospatial Analysis of Access to Ethnic Food Retailers in Two Michigan Cities: Investigating the Importance of Outlet Type within Active Travel Neighborhoods

A framework for understanding how nonprofits shape our physical environment: Identifying allies in making spaces

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