food desert
description: area that has limited access to affordable and nutritious food
56 results
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit
by Steven Higashide · 9 Oct 2019 · 195pp · 52,701 words
are not working 9-to-5 jobs, they’re trying to get to healthcare or grocery stores because most of [south Dallas] is also a food desert.” Part of the problem on the board was a simple, technological view of rail as good transit. “Everybody had a different definition of good transit
Where We Want to Live
by Ryan Gravel · 2 Feb 2016 · 259pp · 76,797 words
their quality-of-life in the face of new density and traffic. For people in the south and west, where generations of disinvestment had left food deserts, abandoned buildings, and blight, it promised to rebalance growth in the city, bringing access to jobs, stores, and other economic activity. For the city’s
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
by Anand Giridharadas · 27 Aug 2018 · 296pp · 98,018 words
the country’s health care system and the problem of unaffordable drugs; its public transport system; its wage and labor laws; its food system and food deserts; its student debt crisis; its so-called great risk shift, through which corporate America has stabilized its own income statements over a generation by off
The Meritocracy Myth
by Stephen J. McNamee · 17 Jul 2013 · 440pp · 108,137 words
Press. Walker, Renee E., Christopher R. Keane, and Jessica G. Burke. 2010. “Disparities and Access to Healthy Food in the United States: A Review of Food Deserts Literature.” Health and Place 16:876–84. Weber, Lynn. 2001. Understanding Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality: A Conceptual Framework. Boston: McGraw-Hill. Western, Bruce. 2006
Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet
by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider · 14 Aug 2017 · 237pp · 67,154 words
. Cooperative enterprises address market failure and need. They provide rural electricity or other utilities in sparsely populated areas; affordable healthy and organic foods, especially in food deserts; access to credit and banking services; access to affordable housing; access to quality affordable child or elder care; and access to markets for culturally sensitive
Dawn of Detroit
by Tiya Miles · 13 Sep 2017 · 415pp · 127,092 words
planners, sociologists of the city, and twentieth-century urban historians, which heightened and sharpened my interest in Detroit. Although my peers were discussing postindustrial society, food deserts, green spaces, mass incarceration, and the pitfalls of gentrification, I could see links between this modern (and postmodern) Detroit and the Detroit of the colonial
Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy
by Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud · 17 Jan 2023 · 350pp · 115,802 words
had laid waste to familiar routines. The simple two-hour trip from Paris to Berlin had taken triple that, and included a connection through the food desert of an airport in Frankfurt, and the indignity of German soldiers shoving cotton swabs up our nasal cavities before we were allowed to exit the
City 2.0: The Habitat of the Future and How to Get There
by Ted Books · 20 Feb 2013 · 83pp · 23,805 words
explored. The urban sanctuary I envisioned in Graber’s lab is coming to life. Our farm and others like it can transform urban communities from food deserts into living oases where fresh food is grown, delivered, and directly consumed. Now it’s time for pioneers and entrepreneurs around the world to expand
Mexico City Street Food: A Travel Guide for the Curious Eater. How to Safely Enjoy the Delicious Foods From the Street Vendors of Mexico City.
by Ron Upshaw · 24 Nov 2015 · 37pp · 10,904 words
a visit to Nashville isn’t complete without BBQ and biscuits from Loveless Cafe. Don't tell my relatives, but if they lived in a food desert, I would visit far less often. I don’t intend to give you a comprehensive guide to all things Mexico City, that seems like an
The New Prophets of Capital
by Nicole Aschoff · 10 Mar 2015 · 128pp · 38,187 words
numerous states, including California, Alabama, Ohio, and Oregon, have planted school gardens through the program. Its Whole Cities program is tackling the challenge of urban “food deserts” by providing grants and educational resources to community groups in cities like New Orleans and Jackson, Mississippi. Whole Foods is also a leader in the
For the Love of Money: A Memoir
by Sam Polk · 18 Jul 2016 · 247pp · 74,612 words
WEconomy: You Can Find Meaning, Make a Living, and Change the World
by Craig Kielburger, Holly Branson, Marc Kielburger, Sir Richard Branson and Sheryl Sandberg · 7 Mar 2018 · 335pp · 96,002 words
Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen
by Dan Heath · 3 Mar 2020
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
by Megan Kimble · 2 Apr 2024 · 430pp · 117,211 words
The No Need to Diet Book: Become a Diet Rebel and Make Friends With Food
by Plantbased Pixie · 7 Mar 2019 · 299pp · 81,377 words
A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
by Warren Berger · 4 Mar 2014 · 374pp · 89,725 words
Death of the Liberal Class
by Chris Hedges · 14 May 2010 · 422pp · 89,770 words
Minimal: How to Simplify Your Life and Live Sustainably
by Madeleine Olivia · 9 Jan 2020 · 306pp · 71,100 words
There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
by Fiona Hill · 4 Oct 2021 · 569pp · 165,510 words
Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car
by Anthony M. Townsend · 15 Jun 2020 · 362pp · 97,288 words
Meet the Frugalwoods: Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living
by Elizabeth Willard Thames · 6 Mar 2018 · 179pp · 59,704 words
Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
by Anthony M. Townsend · 29 Sep 2013 · 464pp · 127,283 words
Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy (Bicycle)
by Elly Blue · 29 Nov 2014 · 221pp · 68,880 words
Bad Science
by Ben Goldacre · 1 Jan 2008 · 322pp · 107,576 words
Vanishing New York
by Jeremiah Moss · 19 May 2017 · 479pp · 140,421 words
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
by Steven W. Thrasher · 1 Aug 2022 · 361pp · 110,233 words
A New History of the Future in 100 Objects: A Fiction
by Adrian Hon · 5 Oct 2020 · 340pp · 101,675 words
The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class
by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett · 14 May 2017 · 550pp · 89,316 words
Sustainable Minimalism: Embrace Zero Waste, Build Sustainability Habits That Last, and Become a Minimalist Without Sacrificing the Planet (Green Housecleaning, Zero Waste Living)
by Stephanie Marie Seferian · 19 Jan 2021
The Nation City: Why Mayors Are Now Running the World
by Rahm Emanuel · 25 Feb 2020 · 212pp · 69,846 words
Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life
by Scott. Branson · 14 Jun 2022 · 198pp · 63,612 words
One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility
by Zack Furness and Zachary Mooradian Furness · 28 Mar 2010 · 532pp · 155,470 words
Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love
by Simran Sethi · 10 Nov 2015 · 396pp · 112,832 words
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
by Charles Montgomery · 12 Nov 2013 · 432pp · 124,635 words
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
by Robert J. Gordon · 12 Jan 2016 · 1,104pp · 302,176 words
Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs
by Johann Hari · 7 May 2024 · 315pp · 98,972 words
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco · 7 Apr 2014 · 326pp · 88,905 words
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by Matthew Desmond · 1 Mar 2016 · 444pp · 138,781 words
The Stolen Year
by Anya Kamenetz · 23 Aug 2022 · 347pp · 103,518 words
Green Gold
by Sarah Allaback · 14 Mar 2025 · 346pp · 99,142 words
Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Locavore's Dilemma
by Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu · 29 May 2012 · 329pp · 85,471 words
We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages
by Annelise Orleck · 27 Feb 2018 · 382pp · 107,150 words
The omnivore's dilemma: a natural history of four meals
by Michael Pollan · 15 Dec 2006 · 467pp · 503 words
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
by Eric Klinenberg · 10 Sep 2018 · 281pp · 83,505 words
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
by Deirdre N. McCloskey · 15 Nov 2011 · 1,205pp · 308,891 words
Poverty for Profit
by Anne Kim · 384pp · 112,825 words
A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies
by Matt Simon · 24 Jun 2022 · 254pp · 82,981 words
Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2020
by Lonely Planet · 21 Oct 2019 · 201pp · 33,620 words
The Soil Will Save Us
by Kristin Ohlson · 14 Oct 2014
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
by Brian Goldstone · 25 Mar 2025 · 512pp · 153,059 words
Lonely Planet Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2022
by Lonely Planet · 26 Oct 2021 · 147pp · 33,578 words
Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
by Chris van Tulleken · 26 Jun 2023 · 448pp · 123,273 words
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
by George Packer · 4 Mar 2014 · 559pp · 169,094 words
City on the Verge
by Mark Pendergrast · 5 May 2017 · 425pp · 117,334 words
Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World
by Sara C. Bronin · 30 Sep 2024 · 230pp · 74,949 words