This 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, w

This 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...