4.C.19 Food desert (178).

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... example, the "Development" section of the "Politics" chapter examines neighborhoods that need investment to help improve residents' lives, by offering maps of food deserts (Figure 3, 178; Figure 4, 179) that reveal which communities have easy access to healthy foods, which do not, and how the solution lies in quality and not simply quantity. A comment on map 4.C.19 (Figure 3) notes that the construction of a large grocery store in the middle of a food desert offers "helpful surface level, not structural, changes" (178). Another map points out that there remains a "persistent mismatch of jobs, education and income in Berkeley, MO, [a city adjacent to Ferguson] despite it being home to two major Fortune 500 companies" (192). ...