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Since food prices have taken center stage, particularly given the Midwestern floods and the impact on corn and soybeans, I thought it might be good to take a look at a diagram Andres Duany uses in his land planning – the Foodstuff Transect.
We’ve not thought much in our contemporary planning about ‘food spaces’ and I think that is about to change!
Richard Pace 
This is part of the SmartCode, a comprehensive land development code that appreciates the protection of natural, rural and ag land as key to the success of urban areas. There is actually a more complex matrix in the form of a “module” to be inserted in legal codes, that includes farming types allowable and appropriate to each Transect Zone, from the T2 Rural to the T6 Urban Center. Each Transect zone is itself an immersive environment, distinct in character yet interdependent with the other T-zones. We think this is the nature of true sustainability.
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