Healthy urban food

Abstract

Food is a territorial system closely linked to public health, social equity and land policy. Eating habits are at the root of both incidence of cardiovascular diseases and phenomena of malnutrition. Food often entails social inequity and is acquiring, directly and indirectly, ever greater relevance in the tools of territorial government.
 The Cities2030 project is being developed, financed by the European Horizon 2020 programme. The methodology agreed upon by the partners envisages the involvement of all interest groups and actors of the food system arena, through the installation of urban Policy and Living Labs.
 The University Iuav of Venice, is involved in the development of two Labs in the Veneto region: one in the city of Vicenza, the other in the Venice lagoon. Working in these two cases will make it possible to reflect on very different food systems, even though they are geographically close.