In this podcast, Rachel Quednau interviews Alfonso Morales, a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, about public markets as part of Strong Towns' <a href='https://www.strongtowns.org/food'>ongoing focus on local food.</a>
They compare markets in the United States with markets around the world, discuss current factors impacting the growth of markets and talk about ways to use data to analyze the success of farmers markets, including a new tool Morales helped to create.
Mentioned in this podcast:
<ul><li><a href='https://mifimarkets.org/'>MIFI Markets</a></li>
<li><a href='http://dcfm.org/'>Dane County Farmers Market</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.milwaukeepublicmarket.org/main.html'>Milwaukee Public Market</a></li>
<li><a href='https://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/books/2016-fall/cities-farmers.htm'>Cities of Farmers</a> by Alfonso Morales and Julie C. Dawson</li>
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The Week Ahead, August 21, 2017

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