Growing local foods movements: Farmers' markets as nodes for products and community in Dallas/Fort Worth
Description:
Undergraduate thesis building on Feagan's (2007) analysis of ideas of community and place, and Kloppenburg et al.'s (1996) concept of foodsheds, and a modified form of drive-time polygons, termed 'marketsheds' that demarcate the consumer-draw area for farmers' markets. Specifically, the research analyzes the spatial distribution of local food communities in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (DFW) in Texas and links the foodshed concept to elements of community and sense of place. Two questions gu…
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Date:
2013~/2014~
Creator:
Aucoin, Martin
Partner:
UNT Honors College