Community Planning + Visualization Lab

This research stream focuses on (urban) food systems and (urban) food environment, and their connection to community health and equity. In particular, it examines equitable spatial distribution of urban agriculture projects (e.g., community gardens, market farms) and the impact of land use policies and regulatory practices on urban agriculture.

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Relevant Projects:

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• Regulatory Practices of Urban Agriculture in the USA: A Survey of Land Use Policies and Zoning Ordinances

• Assessing the Spatial Connection between Urban Agriculture and Equity

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Relevant Articles:

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• Meenar, M., Morales, A., & Bonarek, L. (2017). Regulatory Practices of Organized Urban Agriculture: Connection to Planning and Policy. Journal of American Planning Association, 83(4), 389-403.

• Meenar, M. (2017). Assessing the spatial connection between urban agriculture and equity. Built Environment (special issue on Planning for Equitable Urban and Regional Food Systems), 43(3), 364-375. 

• Meenar, M. (2017). Using participatory and mixed-methods approaches in GIS to develop a Place-Based Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Index. Environment and Planning A, 49(5), 1181–1205.

• Meenar, M. (2015). Nonprofit-driven community capacity building efforts in community food systems. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 6(1), 77-94.

• Meenar, M. & Hoover, B. (2012). Community food security via urban agriculture: understanding people, place, economy, and accessibility from a food justice perspective. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 3(1), 143-160.