How can Mid-sized Cities be Sustainable?
As is so often the case, when it comes to sustainability Wichita, like so many other mid-sized cities spread around the country and the globe – finds itself wondering where it stands.
city-region food systems
City Region Food Systems – Part IIIA – Scale and Production Strategy
In this piece I analyze critiques of smaller scale and alternative production strategies from several angles. In the second I will discuss problems inherent in the argument that small scale can feed the U.S. population and consider a middle path of scale and production diversity.
City Region Food Systems – Part I – Conceptualization
In the developed world, as exemplified in the U.S., there has been a great schism in this regional food bond as more and more distant places become primary food sources.