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It is also something made necessary by the very existence of cities. For an urban region to be viable, it needs a number of "nonurban" areas, to supply the pri
by Kurtz79 11y ago
It is also something made necessary by the very existence of cities.
For an urban region to be viable, it needs a number of "nonurban" areas, to supply the prime and natural resources you mention, a city is by definition not self-sufficient.
For example, Sicily was known as the "granary of Rome", in ancient times...
- glaberficken 11y agoThis was also my first line of thought. Then I started reflecting... if cities are so dependent on the non-urban areas that provide all the natural resources, why is there such a disparity of power between the two? The first thing to come to mind is: natural resources have been comoditized / financialized and are controled by "urban power" (as I wrote in my other comment under parent) [update] another obvious thing that should have occurred to me first: all the buyers for all the things the "non-urban" produce are in the urban areas...