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Challenges students to look closely at the city’s complex food systems, policies and interventions, and approaches to change. Includes seminar discussions and the chance to hear perspectives from speakers active in the city’s food system. Presents guided "backstage" tours at a supermarket, food pantry, school food program, urban farm and peri-urban farms. Develops rich insights through oral history interviews. Emphasizes readings that lean toward qualitative research literature. Examines the interconnectedness of issues and the impacts of power, stakeholder interests, systems, demand, supply, finances, policy, administrative and logistical issues, history, and culture. Emphasizes questioning assumptions, thinking in systems, and building from strengths. Connects lessons from Baltimore to other cities’ food systems; and from food to other urban systems through discussions and lectures.