Food-sensitive urban design

Illustration by Anastasia Christoe 2010.

Food Sensitive Planning and Urban Design (FSPUD) Report Released

This new resource – Food Sensitive Planning and Urban Design: A conceptual framework for achieving a sustainable and just food system – is intended to raise the awareness of planners, architects, urban designers, engineers, policy makers, community members and elected representatives of the need to integrate food considerations into urban land use and development.

It outlines:

key areas in planning legislation, policy and processes to realise this outcomes;

how meeting people’s food needs contributes to the broader objectives of planning and urban design, including: health and fairness; sustainability and resilience; livelihoods and opportunity; and community and amenity; and

a challenge to professionals and the broader community to take on a stronger role in ensuring that healthy, sustainable and equitable food is available for all Australians into the future.

See the report here.