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Bridging culture, cuisine, and urban planning: new book explores the connections between food and urban spaces - EurekAlert


A new book, Magical Foodscape: A Guidebook For Re-planning The Cities Base On The Culture, Food And The Built Environment by Xiwei Shen, explores the connection between food and urban spaces. It looks at four Chinese cities, Chengdu, Xi'an, Wuhan, and Shanghai, and their unique food cultures. The researchers suggest that urban green space can be used to improve food production efficiency, absorption, and processing, promoting the circulation of both food and culture.

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