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“Life Course of Place”: Older Adults' Social Networks and Informal Help Amidst Urban Change
This article examines how older adults, who are long‐term residents in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods, engage in informal help amid neighborhood change. While dominant narratives often frame older adults as passive recipients of care, this study highlights their often‐overlooked role as informal…
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The Caring‐With Practitioner: Diffracting Practice‐Research Dynamics in Urban Care
This article casts a light on the role of practitioner‐researchers working towards more caring cities within an expanded set of actors. By introducing the caring‐with practitioner, we draw attention to engaged, relational, and constitutively entangled forms of practice within urban care discourse…
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Collective Resources of Social Reproduction and Care? Potentialities and Limitations of Urban Initiatives of Commensality
Urban initiatives of commensality (UICs) form micro‐public spaces where people meet, cook together, and share a meal. UICs thereby address both social needs for encounter, care, and community as well as material needs for (free) food. As lived examples of caring‐with, UICs resist neoliberal…
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Awaiting Recovery: The Role of Outdoor Healthcare Spaces in Patient Self‐Care in Ljubljana
Outdoor spaces in public healthcare institutions play a vital role in reducing patient stress and supporting healing. This study investigates their impact on patient self‐care practices across primary, secondary, and tertiary healthcare facilities in Ljubljana, Slovenia, using a two‐phase…
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Prefiguring the Caring City: Everyday Practices and Postcapitalist Possibility in Neighborhood Living Rooms
This article brings an ethic of care into conversation with prefigurative politics to position practices of care as examples of everyday life beyond capitalism. Examining everyday practices in community spaces as prefigurative practices of care illustrates two distinct but interrelated ways these…
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Just Food for Kids? School Food Management Models and Sustainable Procurement in France and Germany
Biodiversity loss, climate change, rising indices of food insecurity, and increasing amounts of food waste underscore the need for a transition toward more sustainable and just food systems. Public food procurement can be considered an important leverage point in sustainable transition processes…
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From Policy to Practice: Tracing the Evolution of Urban Food Policies Across London and Rotterdam
Urban food policies (UFPs) have emerged as key instruments for addressing food system challenges at the municipal level, often framed by scholars as tools for fostering sustainability, inclusivity, and resilience. However, these policies do not exist in a vacuum; instead, they are shaped by the…
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Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Organic Foods in Tehran: A Mixed‐Methods Study
In Iran, despite the limited development and enforcement of certification systems, consumers’ interest in organic food is growing. However, the organic market is still emerging. Therefore, the current study investigates the factors influencing consumers’ willingness to pay for organic fresh…
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Reclaiming Food Insecurity in European Urban Policies: Lessons From Public and Community‐Based Initiatives
Cities are at the forefront of socio‐ecological challenges, including food insecurity, rising inequalities, and environmental degradation. Despite a decade of progress in urban food policies, food insecurity remains a low priority in European cities, even as community and public responses increase…
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Strategic Spatial Opportunities for Local Food Distribution: Urban Accessibility of Community Gardens in Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand
This study explores strategic opportunities for improving access to and distribution of locally produced food. Food consumption in urban areas often depends on long and distant supply chains and corporate distribution points such as supermarkets. Poor integration of local urban food production is a…
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Shaping Equitable Access to Food: Barcelona’s Supply Planning and Policies in Perspective
This article examines the interplay between urban planning, public policy, and food systems, focusing on the city of Barcelona as a case study. The study explores the historical shaping of access to fresh food by public urban policies and planning, ensuring a balanced territorial distribution…
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Food‐Sharing Apps’ Role in Mitigating Food Waste: Examples From Poland and Czechia
The growing challenge of food waste is a frequent topic in international debate, as significant amounts of food remain unrecovered despite being a basic need. Digital platforms and mobile applications now play a key role in redistributing surplus food by connecting local entrepreneurs and catering…
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Rethinking Urban Food Systems in Nairobi: Embracing Local Context for Sustainable Transformation
Urban food systems are crucial for addressing sustainability, equity, and resilience, especially in rapidly growing cities of the Global South. Yet, urban planners have long neglected them. In Nairobi, where up to 60% of residents live in informal settlements and many spend over half their income…
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Community‐Supported Agriculture in Brazil: Co‐Responsibility in Agroecological Production to Strengthen Food Security
The current shape of the world’s food system has promoted increasingly globalized food models, putting people’s food sovereignty and security at risk. Community‐supported agriculture (CSA), a movement grounded on ecologically‐based agriculture and an alternative model for marketing and distributing…
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“They Will Make It Center”: Navigating Food Gentrification in Amsterdam’s Javastraat
Food gentrification is a key driver of socio‐economic and socio‐cultural change in urban spaces. The influx of affluent populations into marginalized neighborhoods often leads to the rise of new food outlets—upscale restaurants, artisan cafés, and boutique‐style food shops—that may initially…
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How Democratic Is Just Enough? Critical Reflections on the Transformative Potential of the Berlin Food Policy Council
In recent years, global social movements have increasingly challenged the corporate food regime, advocating for socio‐ecological transformations in the agri‐food system. This article questions whether food activists’ discourse and actions may potentially compel a democratic, participatory, and just…
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A Switch to Commons: The Evolution of the Regulation of Urban Agriculture in Rome, Italy
This article investigates how framing urban agriculture as a “common good” shapes governance structures and fosters participatory processes for sustainable urban development. In October 2024, the City of Rome approved a new regulation on urban agriculture within the broader Regulation for the…
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Community Food Systems Report Cards as Tools for Advancing Food Sovereignty in City-Regions
Developing pragmatic possibilities for advancing food sovereignty to address challenges of justice and sustainability within food systems is an essential project for human survival. A practical starting point is to identify existing challenges along with comprehensive strategies that avoid isolated…
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Perspectives on Food in the Sustainable City
This thematic issue explores the importance of food geographies in understanding and shaping sustainable food systems in urban contexts. As cities strive to achieve sustainability goals, the importance of food as a critical urban system has become increasingly recognized. The contributions in this…
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Levers for Sustainable Food System Transformation: How to Foster Biodiversity and Organic and Local Food Through Public Catering
Biodiversity loss is one of the most urgent sustainability challenges and is closely linked to our food system. How food consumption is organized, especially in urban areas, will be crucial in shaping biodiversity‐friendly and sustainable food systems in the coming years. In this context, the…