Definitions
What does 'technis' mean?
'know how'
Whom is the founder of the Garden City Movement?
Ebenezer Howard
What is a "food desert"?
A “food desert,” according to United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Economic Research Service (ERS) is, a low-income census tract where a substantial number or share of residents have low access to a supermarket or large grocery
store.
(True / False) Food is the product of a specific place; it is above all a cultural product, and for this reason represents within itself all the factors that designed the concept of the landscape into which it is inserted.
True
The right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems putting the aspirations and needs of those who produce, distribute and consume food at the heart of food systems and policies rather than the demands of markets and corporations.
Food sovereignty
What is a centuriatio?
A fundamental structure, rural model, and ecological structure.
‘Crop mobbing’ is a process by which participants do what?
Pay to harvest the crop
What is a low-income census tract?
A low-income census tracts must meet the Treasury Department’s New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) criteria, meaning that the poverty rate for the tract is at least 20 percent or higher.
In the US, food travels an average of how many miles from farm to plate?
about 1,500 miles
A theory or doctrine that acts of the will, occurrences in nature, or social or psychological phenomena are causally determined by preceding events or natural laws.
Determinism
What is the petite bourgeoisie?
A term that refers to a social class composed of small business owners, shopkeepers, small-scale merchants, semi-autonomous peasants, and artisans.
Within the Emilia-Romagna region, farmers over fifty-five years of age represent _______ percent of the sector that could retire without successors.
60%
What is food insecurity?
Food insecurity—the condition assessed in the food security survey and represented in USDA food security reports—is a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
What is food literacy?
The ability and understanding in relation to food.
A theory that theology and metaphysics are earlier imperfect modes of knowledge, and that positive knowledge is based on natural phenomena and their properties and relations as verified by the empirical sciences.
Positivism
What is high modernism?
High modernism (also known as high modernity) is a form of modernity, characterized by an unfaltering confidence in science and technology as means to reorder the social and natural world. The high modernist movement was particularly prevalent during the Cold War, especially in the late 1950s and 1960s.
Victory Gardens during World War II supplied ? percent of vegetable consumption in North America and around ? percent of Britain’s fruit and vegetables.
40%
50%
What is Teikei (提携) ?
Teikei (提携) is a system of community-supported agriculture in Japan, where consumers purchase food directly from farmers.
Food has an important role for the residents of the city as an expression of their own . . . ?
history / community
Describes a spatial relationship between core (developed, wealthy) and periphery (less developed, often resource-rich) regions. This model highlights how economic, political, and cultural power is concentrated in the core while the periphery is often exploited and dependent on the core.
What is a "subaltern"?
In postcolonial theory, a "subaltern" refers to marginalized groups in a society, particularly those who have been historically oppressed or displaced by colonial powers or dominant social structures.
It is strongly argued that [_?_] percent of the food could be produced within the city borders, with significant benefits to its residents and the city environment itself.
30%
What is the multiplier effect?
The consistent increase or decrease of final income that results from an injection or withdrawal of capital; the phenomenon of local investment in local economies speeding up the value of local capital.
A 10 square foot garden can yield how many pounds of food per year.
40 lbs
The theory of ‘[...]’ argues that systems and processes should be designed to be closed loop in all scales of architecture and urbanism from the individual through to individual dwellings, streets and neighborhoods, and then the city and finally the bioregion.
Nested redundancy