Food for the City, Food in the City

KAREN A FRANCK notes that the luxury of eating and food shopping in slick new spaces often comes at the cost of losing more ethnically diverse small businesses. When we focus on this aspect of food and the city, though, we may lose sight of food in all its diversity - as grown as well as consumed, as available or not available to those in poorer neighbourhoods. Viewing food as a system, even an urban system, brings many needs and opportunities to the fore.