ABSTRACT
Urbanisation today represents the greatest shift in human dwelling the world has ever seen. More people now live in cities than in rural areas, and their number is expected to double by 2050. Cities are set to dominate the future, yet living in them presents a dilemma, since their food must come from elsewhere: a place we persist in calling ‘the countryside’, although the images conjured by the term bear little relation to the realities of modern food production.
