Food Systems: An Urban Planning Frontier

Mark Winne makes the case for how the production, distribution and consumption of food is an urban planning issue.  He cites Hartford's recent local and regional food planning efforts as a model, and writes about the implications that food systems have on housing, economic development and transportation. He reports that all over the country, several state and local food planning councils are in the early stages of development.

Full story: Click on Food System Planning: Setting the Community’s Table. 

Source: Click on Planners Network, Mar 08, 2004.

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