Cities and Food

Mid-level course examining the complex interrelationship of cities and food systems. Urbanization as a socioecological process now extending beyond the boundaries of cities themselves. Changes in “urban metabolisms” and nutrient cycling with the rise of fossil fuels and industrialism. Types and functions of urban agriculture. Symbiotic, extractive, and uneven relationships between and within cities, peri-urban areas, and rural places. Labor and migration within a globally urbanized food supply. Roles of food and cities within projects of place-marketing, ecological remediation, and egalitarian social movements. No prerequisites.