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Food and Revitalization: Examining the Underlying Structural Problems of Food Deserts
BY ALEX BLUESTONE For most, the term conjures up notions of an urban, post-industrialized city in which a poor—and often marginalized—neighborhood whose residents are limited in their ability to procure healthy food. The result is that, as some research has shown, in neighborhoods and areas with the worst access to food, residents die from cardiovascular-related…