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UCL Press and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) are delighted to announce the publication of a brand new open access book that will be of interest to list subscribers: Integrating Food into Urban Planning. Download it free from: http://bit.ly/2KuQbqP
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Integrating Food into Urban Planning
Edited by Yves Cabannes, Emeritus Professor of Development Planning, Chair of Development Planning (2006-2015) at Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL and Cecilia Marocchino, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), Rome
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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 and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, 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.
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