GGRA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Food Desert, Urban Metabolism, Timbits
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Eating is a biological, social and spatial process. We rely on a whole host of different environments to get food into our bodies. Eating is biological > in cities, eating is a deeply spatial activity. Humans must meet their material needs through nature. By our very natures, we must eat to survive creates an environment outside of us. Our reliance on food for survivial connects us to our environment and the ecosstems around us. (cid:449)e (cid:373)ay (cid:272)o(cid:374)su(cid:373)e food, (cid:271)ut are(cid:374)(cid:859)t just dependent on the grocery store where we purchased the food, but rather on a lot of rural farms and env. To get us the food (eg. transport system, supermarkets etc. ) (cid:449)e(cid:859)re dis(cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:272)ted fro(cid:373) the e(cid:374)(cid:448). that sa(cid:448)e our lives. In part, cities grow because agriculture on outside sustains those on the inside. Pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) far(cid:373)s, (cid:272)ost(cid:272)o, (cid:271)ut(cid:272)her shop, (cid:373)all, gro(cid:272)ery store, fast food, far(cid:373)er(cid:859)s (cid:373)arket, subsistent/family gardens, convenience stores,
