Course Description

Numerous journal articles via COLLAB or course reader, and selections from books such as:

The Town That Food Saved, by Ben Hewitt.

Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability by Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman

The Key to Sustainable Cities: Meeting Human Needs, Transforming Community Systems by Gwendolyn Hallsmith

Food Sovereignty: Reconnecting Food, Nature and Community, edited by Hannah Wittman, Annette Aurelie Desmarais, and Nettie Wiebe

Fair Food by Oran Hesterman

Food Justice by Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi

Closing the Food Gap by Mark Winne

Public Produce by Darin Nadhal

Hope Beneath Our Fee, by Frances Moore Lappé

Requirements

Students will: 1) develop a poster concerning community water and health (20%), 2) write a low impact development paper (30%) 3) design stormwater retrofit for a city site (40%) 4) Discussion (10%)

Readings

? France, Robert, (ed), Handbook of Water Sensitive Design. Boca Raton: Lewis Publishers, 2002. (on reserve) ? Riley, A.L., Restoring Streams in Cities. Island Press, Washington, D.C., 2000 ? Otto, Betsy; McCormick, Kathleen, and Leccese, Michael. Ecological Riverfront Design: Restoring Rivers and Connecting Communities, American Planning Association, March 2004 ? Selected journal article readings in health and water (on class collab)