CLF-Led Course to Explore Urban Food Environments A new course led by Center for a Livable Future staff member Anne Palmer, MAIA, and Roni Neff, PhD, MS, will debut at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the fourth term. The course will use Baltimore’s food system as a case study of urban food environments. “The course will challenge students to look closely at the environment of Baltimore city’s complex food systems, and to consider what it would take to improve these systems to assure access for all to nutritious, adequate and affordable food,” says Palmer, who heads up CLF’s Eating for the Future Program. Students will “go backstage” with tour guides at sites that might include a supermarket, a corner store, an emergency food distribution center and an urban garden. They will learn about the types of food available at these sites, who eats the food, relevant aspects of their operations and key barriers to and opportunities for providing access to healthier food, ideally with reduced environmental harm. They also will interview elderly city residents to understand how food access has changed over the years. |
