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Database research record2022·Global

Change is inevitable, but is gentrification?

Megan Marshall

Journal of Agriculture Food Systems and Community Development

Urban Farm DB summary

"A Recipe for Gentrification" is an edited volume exploring the complex relationship between intent and impact at the intersection of alternative food systems and urban development. The book aims to unpack how food systems can both drive and resist gentrification. It shows that well-intentioned efforts to increase food access in a neighborhood can be an early initiator of gentrification, and urban agriculture and public green spaces are frequently co-opted for development efforts.