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As a marker of current austerity policies, the growth of the emergency food aid landscape has become recognisable through the ‘food bank’. These places of charitable food-redistribution have seen their presence increase within an evolving social policy context. Understanding foo…

This thesis proposes the design of a downtown food center complex as the next logical development of the food bank system of the City of Tacoma, Washington. The first part of the thesis examines the complex character of Tacoma’s emergency food system through a study of the city’…

Hunger relief organizations are important to provide safe and nutritious food to people who experience food insecurity. Predicting food demand is a challenge because of its stochastic nature and the complexity of the operations of these organizations. More so, the demand side of…