All episodes of Food and the Built Environment, Winter 2012

Food and the Built Environment, Winter 2012

Episodes

Lecture 9: Professor Napawan continues her lecture on communal food production in urban gardens, the first part of which was Lecture 7 given on 2/24/12.

Published 03/09/12

What Exactly Are We Attempting to Sustain?

Lecture 8: Guest speaker Adam Prince, who focuses on urban food production, discusses urban agriculture, transcultural exchange and community building.

Published 03/02/12

Communal Gardening for Food Production

Lecture 7: Professor Napawan gives a primer on communal food production in urban gardens, which is on the scale somewhere between "empty lot" gardens and "boutique" yet commercial farms.

Published 02/24/12

Urban Agriculture and Landscape Architects

Lecture 6: Ellen Burke discusses the interaction between aesthetics and necessity.

Published 02/17/12

The Complexities of Local Food

Lecture 5: UC Davis' Ryan Galt discusses the concepts of food miles, greenhouse gas emissions and the complexities of local food.

Published 02/10/12

Discussion of the Film "Food, Inc." by Robert Kenner

Lecture 4: Professor Napawan introduces Robert Kenner's film.

Published 02/03/12

Urban Homesteading

Lecture 3: Rachel Kaplan discusses heirloom skills for sustainable living. Please note there is no lecture 2: please see the PDF available here: http://lda.ucdavis.edu/program/undergrad/coursesites.html

Published 01/27/12

Food and the Built Environment, Winter 2012

Published 01/13/12

Why food and what's the impact?

Lecture 1: an introduction to this course about food and the built environment.

Published 01/13/12