ABSTRACT
Western cities require new ideas and innovations to better create healthy and sustainable places for us to occupy and enjoy. While a raft of Australian urban planning and landscape architecture literature, along with many design practitioners, critique the ‘state’ of Australia’s cities believing that there is much wrong with these urban environments, increasingly the notion of ‘healthy cities’ has surfaced as a concern for the mental and physical health of urban dwellers. Unfortunately, the ‘healthy cities’ discourse pays little attention to sustainable food planning in Australia. This chapter: (1) underscores the concept, role, and importance of positioning food sensitive urban planning within a regulatory system; (2) frames key issues and themes associated with food planning; and (3) offers new insights in innovations and directions that are quietly occurring in Australia. The discussion associated with these three items offer a platform to refocus sustainability in cities around municipal food planning.
