Building on this specific history and geography, she identifies key traces of the past food system within the city of today and how these traces have changed function and meaning if any. This leads her to a discussion of current actors in the local food system, focusing on their actions on particular places within the current urban context. After setting the stage of such an analysis at the metropolitan scale, she uses as a case study a particular neighborhood—one that is quite dense and with challenging socioeconomic conditions.
She shows how a fine-grained reading of a neighborhood can use spatial design principles derived from the analytical lens that agroecology provides.
The paper written by Jones and Franck focuses on the relation between building types and urban contexts and how food can lead to a reinvention of such types as neighborhoods change over time. They consider how the adaptive reuse of former industrial areas are transforming some of this existing infrastructure into elements of the food system, serving as sites for emerging businesses at different points of the food supply chain, from production to marketing.
Using six case studies from four older US cities, they show how basic assumptions about where food fits in a city are being upended through adaptive reuse. They also show that the type of building being adapted, the context where such buildings are located, and the process through which the adaptation takes place including the impacts of the regulatory framework , all vary dramatically. De la Salle focuses in her paper on one basic feature of the urban fabric, namely the street system, developing a systematic analysis of street types and features as they relate to food-related activities, using a number of examples, most from Western Canadian cities and towns.
This stand is explicitly a reaction to the way people, places and food systems have been separated from each other. At the core of her argument is that the renewed interest by urban designers and planners in the quality of the street as a public realm has not placed food as a central element that contributes to this quality of streets. Swai maintains a focus on the place of food in streets, but uses a fine-grained examination of a particular case—downtown Dar es Salaam—to undertake a multifaceted analysis of a number of dimensions of the place and time of food in streets.
He shows that this presence particularly through street foods can be instrumental in the way streets work. This paper connects architectural dynamics, food system operations and sustainable livelihood strategies in an innovative analysis combining mapping, sketching, interviewing and measuring. This analysis leads ultimately to suggestions for recognizing the multiple roles that a particular segment of an informal economy can play—not only in terms of livelihood and food security, but also personal safety and urban development.
The last paper by Miedema differs from the other papers in this special issue. It uses a specific neighborhood in the mid-sized Canadian city of London, Ontario, to ground this hypothetical approach to particular features of that neighborhood. The paper concludes by starting to consider what applying such a lens to an urban context can imply for urban design. A historical and geographical understanding of existing and potential conditions of food in cities needs to be integrated into urban design research.
A systems approach to food in cities is relevant for understanding the place of food and its relation to other urban systems. Focussing on actors in food systems as well as urban design is necessary for a comprehension of the place of food in cities, and building on that, for the design of appropriate food-system interventions. Food-system analysis can be effectively combined with common analytical tools in urban design, such as the focus on basic urban elements like streets, the use of typomorphology, etc.
Fine-grained analysis of the relation between food systems and physical context in cities is needed to enable effective urban design for food systems. In recent years, food system thinking is increasingly recognized as a key factor for understanding a wide range of food issues as well as to develop and implement appropriate responses to these issues.
Building on the application of system thinking to food challenges, food-system tools are gradually being developed. Moreover, food system thinking is evolving in relation to urban contexts, from the aforementioned city-region food systems to continuous productive urban landscapes to agrarian urbanism to urban agroecology.
These various conceptual frameworks and accompanying sets of tools need to be integrated into urban design theory and practice which, so far, have remained rather immune to these burgeoning approaches. If such integration were to take place in coming years, a few questions would be pertinent to readers of this journal. Where do urban designers fit into the food system picture? What can they contribute, in their daily practice, in terms of food system solutions?
What lessons do the analyses offered by these six papers and the array of challenges that they identify provide urban designers? This thematic issue seeks to show urban design thinkers and practitioners that they belong around the food-system table.
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