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Database research record2015·Global

FoodSpace: Food production in the city

Ursula Lang

ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam)

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This article argues that existing alternatives to factory foods often rely on nostalgic models of rural purity, limiting the incorporation of new urban farming methods. Cultural associations with rural purity and urban pollution have led to an oversight of cities' potential to provide fresh, seasonal, and local foods by focusing on standard, horizontal spatial relationships.