Degree Type
Honors Capstone Project
Date of Submission
Spring 5-1-2012
Capstone Advisor
Kevin Lair
Honors Reader
Susan Henderson
Capstone Major
Architecture
Capstone College
Architecture
Audio/Visual Component
no
Capstone Prize Winner
no
Won Capstone Funding
no
Honors Categories
Creative
Subject Categories
Architectural History and Criticism | Architecture | Urban, Community and Regional Planning
Abstract
Industrial agricultural practice coupled with urban planning and infrastructural development over the past century has placed an unfair environmental burden on low income urban communities across the United States of America. As Majora Carter explains in her 2006 TED talk titled “Greening the Ghetto,” race and class correlate directly with the availability of parks, space and quality of public programming, as well as proximity to undesirable things such as highways, dumps, power plants, distribution centers etc. Furthermore, the development of said highways, distribution centers and the like has precipitated the exodus of economic opportunity including healthy food programming from the accessible urban realm marginalizing the low income communities at their core because of these boundaries and barriers to success. “Economic degradation begets environmental degradation which in turn begets social degradation,” (Carter) so it should be no surprise that the result is a continually deteriorating low income urban realm that is poverty stricken and crime ridden, with little educational or economic investment. All of these environmental burdens together promote the unhealthy diet and lifestyle that characterizes many low income low income urban communities which also contributes to the tax and healthcare burdens experienced by the middle and upper socioeconomic echelon.
Recommended Citation
Buttz, Dorothy Ann, "Fast/Fresh Food: Feed Syracuse Communities" (2012). Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All. 206.
https://surface.syr.edu/honors_capstone/206
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