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How might we restore vibrancy in cities and regions facing economic decline?
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Mission #5
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Mobile: The Food Truck
Mobile food trucks provide community, good food, and jobs via a small business. More importantly, being mobile, they can be used to suss out areas that might be ripe for redevelopment.The idea of the food truck has definitely come up in past challenges (#IDEOFOODREV and #oi_localfood), but I think it's also very relevant to this one. In the past five years, I've lived in and around two cities: Boston and Miami. Both have a growing food truck population, where even fancy restaurants go mobile to bring their wares to a lunchtime crowd, a student crowd, or an area without many dining options. In Boston, this has been going on for years, with the food trucks primarily serving colleges. In Miami, this recent effort has brought gourmet food along with fast food to many parts of the city, including outdoor events. Good food is a wonderful way to bring people together, and perhaps if subsidized, these trucks could provide rotating types of cuisine to many areas and populations that otherwise wouldn't experience or couldn't afford anything like it.
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