No, no, you haven’t reach Hungry Memphis by mistake.
I’ve been sitting on this video about food and cities for a few days, but it’s well worth passing along.
In this TEDtalk, architect Carolyn Steel discusses how cities feed their residents: how urbanism grew up alongside agriculture, how ancient Rome effectively waged war against Carthage and Egypt to get its hands on their grain reserves — “one long drawn-out militarized shopping spree” — and how cities were physically shaped by food production and transportation.
