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Geographic Science and Community Planning
Description: This course investigates the intersections of urban planning, food systems, and social justice, highlighting the policies, politics, and movements that influence food access, production, and sustainability. As emerging food planners, students will critically engage with food justice and food sovereignty movements, urban agroecology, placemaking, the role of immigrant farmworkers, street vending, community-based research, and the right to the city. Students will analyze case studies from cities in the global North and South to examine these topics through the lenses of race, class, gender, and justice. Co-convened with GSP 550. Letter grade only.
Units: 3
No sections currently offered.
Geographic Science and Community Planning
Term : Fall 2026
Catalog Year : 2026-2027
GSP 450 - Urban Food Systems: Policy, Politics, And Justice
Description: This course investigates the intersections of urban planning, food systems, and social justice, highlighting the policies, politics, and movements that influence food access, production, and sustainability. As emerging food planners, students will critically engage with food justice and food sovereignty movements, urban agroecology, placemaking, the role of immigrant farmworkers, street vending, community-based research, and the right to the city. Students will analyze case studies from cities in the global North and South to examine these topics through the lenses of race, class, gender, and justice. Co-convened with GSP 550. Letter grade only.
Units: 3
No sections currently offered.