There is increasing awareness of the direct relationship between diet, the growing of food and well-being. It is also widely understood that local food growing can address multiple aspects of sustainability: environmental, social and economic. All of these have the potential to help tackle the climate crisis, strengthening long-term, local resilience. The playbook is predicated on the belief that integrating food into urban projects – whether in new or growing, densifying neighbourhoods – increases the health of both people and the planet in a variety of ways.
The Playbook provides information that should provoke and enable built environment professionals to ask the right questions when commencing a masterplanning project. It then equips them with a toolkit, underpinned by real life case studies, that delineates typologies of food growing that can be applied to the context in which they find themselves working.
The underlying tenet of the Playbook for Food + Masterplanning is that every urban design and masterplanning project can and should incorporate food systems.
