City design shapes what we eat: Helle Søholt & Jeff Risom,

City design shapes what we eat: Helle Søholt & Jeff Risom, Gehl Architects

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Does the surrounding architecture make your food choices for you? In a way, if you ask CEO and founding partner at Gehl Architects, Helle Søholt and CIO Jeff Risom. Their team map ‘foodscapes’ that reveal what food choices surrounds us, and how that can be improved. Design for healthy choices is about exposing people to healthy food, but also considering how eating is a part of social interactions, and that is influenced by the urban design. Michael Booth is host.

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