Assignment 1
When is the assignment due (time and date)?
11:59PM on Friday, October 2
What is the term for the social interaction, sociability, and shared enjoyment that food markets can foster?
Convivality
Which city's is mentioned as having traditional wet markets that provide fresh food and employment while sustaining community connections beyond profit?
Hong Kong
What is the title of Chapter 2?
Hint: The Garden and _____ ?
The Garden and Gastronomy
What was the time period Parham indicates food markets outside of France and Italy saw a renaissance?
1990s
How many words is the assignment meant to be?
500-word proposal + annotated list of data to be analyzed
In ancient Greek cities, what multipurpose public space was often located beside the food market?
Agora
Which ancient civilization valued the productive domestic garden so highly that even modest houses commonly had a small vegetable garden called a hortus?
Roman
What "broke" the domestic design relationship between production and consumption in the 20th century?
World wars
Which of these is NOT one of the 4 categories of food markets Parham mentions?
1. Enclosed halls in urban squares.
2. Semi-covered markets in urban squares.
3. Enclosed halls in a city building block.
4. Open markets in public parks.
4. Open markets in public parks.
Name the acceptable fonts, font sizes, and line spacing of the assignment.
Font: Arial 11pt. or Times New Roman 12pt.
Line Spacing: 1.5
What term describes the interconnected relationships between food, people, and places?
Foodscape
Parham talks about the gardens in Adelaide, Australia of post-war immigrants from which 2 countries?
Greece and Italy
What was promoted by the American governments as an "patriotic necessity" in 1943?
Victory gardens
Identify 2 developments that contributed to the decline of British market halls between 1890 and 1939.
Suburbanization, competition from chain stores and cooperatives, modern wholesale distribution, changing consumption, and increased car and bus access
Name at least 3 of the themes you can address.
o Housing & Shelter;
o Transportation;
o Environment;
o Economic Development;
o Public Health.
What does Chapter 3 mean by the “suburbanization” of traditional urban food spaces?
The movement of food retail and related activities toward suburban malls, car-oriented shopping areas, and peripheral distribution centres (food becomes less integrated into the everyday public life of the city centre).
Which Parisian wholesale market complex, famous for its iron halls, was demolished in the 1970s?
Les Halles
What was one goal of the Swedish allotment garden movement led by Anna Lindhagen around 1900?
To improve working-class and low-income people's living conditions and food supply, with advocates also associating gardening with moral improvement.
What three modern retail forms did the market hall help pave the way for?
Department stores, supermarkets, and shopping malls
Name at least 2 of the resources the Professor recommended for this assignment (bottom of the instructions page)?
City of Toronto Open Data Portal
Stats Canada Census Data
Ontario Open Data Portal
City of Toronto Neighborhood Profiles
Toronto Neighborhood Assessment Frameworl
City of Toronto long term vision, plans, and strategies
What planning approach does Richard Trancik criticize for separating land uses and weakening the relationship between buildings and public space?
Functionalism
Name one of two famous French estates that had elaborate aristocratic potagers that became widely copied by the mid-seventeenth century.
Versailles or Villandry
According to Parham, why are green spaces, including domestic gardens, important to human well-being beyond their practical uses?
They connect people with nature, supporting physical and psychological well-being and providing settings for social connection.
How can a food market increase conviviality while also lead to gentrification?
It can create a lively public gathering place while attracting affluent consumers, raising the status of an area, and privileging expensive/conspicuous consumption.