Kameshwari Pothukuchi
Biographic Data
| ID | 2104394 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kameshwari Pothukuchi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kameshwari |
| FAMILY NAME | Pothukuchi |
| SIGNATURE | POTHUKUCHI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8685-678X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Mitigating urban light pollution
Propelled by more energy-efficient technologies such as light-emitting diodes, the growth of outdoor light at night is raising concerns about light pollution (LP). Given mounting evidence of LP’s risks to human wellbeing, nature and wildlife, and views of the dark sky, this paper examines the extent to which LP concerns are addressed in land use plans, policies, and regulations in nine U.S. cities, including Flagstaff, Arizona, a city known for i…
Vacant land disposition for agriculture in Cleveland, Ohio
Redevelopment and food sustainability advocates both support urban agriculture as a productive use of vacant land in Rustbelt cities, where vacancy is endemic. However, the first group typically envisions agriculture only as temporary, whereas the second seeks to harness vacancy to establish an enduring agriculture that supplies fresh produce to underserved neighborhoods and strengthens local food systems. In this article, I investigate whether a…
To allow farming is to give up on the city”
Detroit has a vibrant urban agriculture movement as well as an abundance of vacant land, much of which has come into city ownership through foreclosure. Despite the presence of a land bank and a supportive agricultural ordinance, growers struggle to gain long-term access to and ownership of land on which to farm. Using in-depth interviews with growers and their advocates, community development experts, and city and land bank officials, I discuss …
Standing in the Shadows of Obesity
Much of the literature examining associations between local food environments and obesity fail to consider whether or not respondents actually utilise the food stores around them. Drawing on survey data, this study examines the relationships between the neighbourhood food environment, mobility and obesity among residents from the lower eastside neighbourhoods of Detroit, Michigan. Certain dimensions of the local food environment are found to cont…
Five Decades of Community Food Planning in Detroit
Food planning in Detroit has matured over the last fifteen years, but it is not without links to past food-related initiatives or broader planning in response to the city’s decline over five decades. Occurring mostly in community networks, it encompasses a greater variety of activities than that sponsored by public or quasi-public agencies. Because of food planning’s links to place and politics, the continuity of institutional structures and thei…
Sustainable Food Systems at Urban Public Universities
Urban communities are challenged by the conventional food system in diverse ways. To mitigate these challenges, a growing sustainable food system (SFS) movement mobilizes existing resources—including public institutions—to resolve disparities in access to healthy food, increase economic opportunities, conserve natural resources, and build a stronger, more local food system. Many public universities located in inner cities have adopted missions co…
Explaining disparities in food safety compliance by food stores
Building community infrastructure for healthy communities
Community Food Assessment
Community food assessments (CFAs) constitute a first step in planning for community food security. Community food security is a situation in which all community residents obtain a safe, culturally acceptable, nutritionally adequate diet through a sustainable food system that also maximizes community self-reliance and social justice. Through a study of nine CFAs, this article discusses their common threads to planning, how a planning approach migh…
Effectiveness and Empowerment in Women's Shelter
Policy debates on shelter for women have focused on family structure, gender roles and the importance of shelter in women's economic development. They emphasize the need for shelter that is generally effective and empowering for women. Although valuable, these general policy proposals are often unable to account for the particular situations in specific cultural contexts in which family structure, roles and economic development are reshaped by wo…
The Food System
Shelley Jordon describes her artwork as celebrating “the power and the beauty of domestic spaces and objects...culled from daily life.” Food is among the most basic of daily human needs, yet what is most basic often gets overlooked. Alpenrose, her image of a breakfast table, brings this human need to the fore, as authors Ka-meshwari Pothukucki and Jerome L. Kaufman argue that food systems need a place among the concerns of planners. The artist, w…
Placing the food system on the urban agenda
Youth Participation in Community Planning
Placing the food system on the urban agenda
Community Food Assessment
Community food assessments (CFAs) constitute a first step in planning for community food security. Community food security is a situation in which all community residents obtain a safe, culturally acceptable, nutritionally adequate diet through a sustainable food system that also maximizes community self-reliance and social justice. Through a study of nine CFAs, this article discusses their common threads to planning, how a planning approach migh…
To allow farming is to give up on the city”
Detroit has a vibrant urban agriculture movement as well as an abundance of vacant land, much of which has come into city ownership through foreclosure. Despite the presence of a land bank and a supportive agricultural ordinance, growers struggle to gain long-term access to and ownership of land on which to farm. Using in-depth interviews with growers and their advocates, community development experts, and city and land bank officials, I discuss …
Five Decades of Community Food Planning in Detroit
Food planning in Detroit has matured over the last fifteen years, but it is not without links to past food-related initiatives or broader planning in response to the city’s decline over five decades. Occurring mostly in community networks, it encompasses a greater variety of activities than that sponsored by public or quasi-public agencies. Because of food planning’s links to place and politics, the continuity of institutional structures and thei…
Youth Participation in Community Planning
Sustainable Food Systems at Urban Public Universities
Urban communities are challenged by the conventional food system in diverse ways. To mitigate these challenges, a growing sustainable food system (SFS) movement mobilizes existing resources—including public institutions—to resolve disparities in access to healthy food, increase economic opportunities, conserve natural resources, and build a stronger, more local food system. Many public universities located in inner cities have adopted missions co…
Vacant land disposition for agriculture in Cleveland, Ohio
Redevelopment and food sustainability advocates both support urban agriculture as a productive use of vacant land in Rustbelt cities, where vacancy is endemic. However, the first group typically envisions agriculture only as temporary, whereas the second seeks to harness vacancy to establish an enduring agriculture that supplies fresh produce to underserved neighborhoods and strengthens local food systems. In this article, I investigate whether a…
Explaining disparities in food safety compliance by food stores
Effectiveness and Empowerment in Women's Shelter
Policy debates on shelter for women have focused on family structure, gender roles and the importance of shelter in women's economic development. They emphasize the need for shelter that is generally effective and empowering for women. Although valuable, these general policy proposals are often unable to account for the particular situations in specific cultural contexts in which family structure, roles and economic development are reshaped by wo…
Standing in the Shadows of Obesity
Much of the literature examining associations between local food environments and obesity fail to consider whether or not respondents actually utilise the food stores around them. Drawing on survey data, this study examines the relationships between the neighbourhood food environment, mobility and obesity among residents from the lower eastside neighbourhoods of Detroit, Michigan. Certain dimensions of the local food environment are found to cont…
Youth Participation in Community Planning
Placing the food system on the urban agenda
The Food System
Shelley Jordon describes her artwork as celebrating “the power and the beauty of domestic spaces and objects...culled from daily life.” Food is among the most basic of daily human needs, yet what is most basic often gets overlooked. Alpenrose, her image of a breakfast table, brings this human need to the fore, as authors Ka-meshwari Pothukucki and Jerome L. Kaufman argue that food systems need a place among the concerns of planners. The artist, w…
Effectiveness and Empowerment in Women's Shelter
Policy debates on shelter for women have focused on family structure, gender roles and the importance of shelter in women's economic development. They emphasize the need for shelter that is generally effective and empowering for women. Although valuable, these general policy proposals are often unable to account for the particular situations in specific cultural contexts in which family structure, roles and economic development are reshaped by wo…
Community Food Assessment
Community food assessments (CFAs) constitute a first step in planning for community food security. Community food security is a situation in which all community residents obtain a safe, culturally acceptable, nutritionally adequate diet through a sustainable food system that also maximizes community self-reliance and social justice. Through a study of nine CFAs, this article discusses their common threads to planning, how a planning approach migh…
Building community infrastructure for healthy communities
Explaining disparities in food safety compliance by food stores
Sustainable Food Systems at Urban Public Universities
Urban communities are challenged by the conventional food system in diverse ways. To mitigate these challenges, a growing sustainable food system (SFS) movement mobilizes existing resources—including public institutions—to resolve disparities in access to healthy food, increase economic opportunities, conserve natural resources, and build a stronger, more local food system. Many public universities located in inner cities have adopted missions co…
Five Decades of Community Food Planning in Detroit
Food planning in Detroit has matured over the last fifteen years, but it is not without links to past food-related initiatives or broader planning in response to the city’s decline over five decades. Occurring mostly in community networks, it encompasses a greater variety of activities than that sponsored by public or quasi-public agencies. Because of food planning’s links to place and politics, the continuity of institutional structures and thei…
Vacant land disposition for agriculture in Cleveland, Ohio
Redevelopment and food sustainability advocates both support urban agriculture as a productive use of vacant land in Rustbelt cities, where vacancy is endemic. However, the first group typically envisions agriculture only as temporary, whereas the second seeks to harness vacancy to establish an enduring agriculture that supplies fresh produce to underserved neighborhoods and strengthens local food systems. In this article, I investigate whether a…
To allow farming is to give up on the city”
Detroit has a vibrant urban agriculture movement as well as an abundance of vacant land, much of which has come into city ownership through foreclosure. Despite the presence of a land bank and a supportive agricultural ordinance, growers struggle to gain long-term access to and ownership of land on which to farm. Using in-depth interviews with growers and their advocates, community development experts, and city and land bank officials, I discuss …
Standing in the Shadows of Obesity
Much of the literature examining associations between local food environments and obesity fail to consider whether or not respondents actually utilise the food stores around them. Drawing on survey data, this study examines the relationships between the neighbourhood food environment, mobility and obesity among residents from the lower eastside neighbourhoods of Detroit, Michigan. Certain dimensions of the local food environment are found to cont…
Mitigating urban light pollution
Propelled by more energy-efficient technologies such as light-emitting diodes, the growth of outdoor light at night is raising concerns about light pollution (LP). Given mounting evidence of LP’s risks to human wellbeing, nature and wildlife, and views of the dark sky, this paper examines the extent to which LP concerns are addressed in land use plans, policies, and regulations in nine U.S. cities, including Flagstaff, Arizona, a city known for i…
Political science (12 works) · Geography (10 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (8 works) · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Food security (5 works)