People complain that cities don't have fresh, sustainable food, but it's just not true.
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The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is not so.
We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health. And in the inner city, people don't have grocery stores. So we have to figure out a way of getting supermarkets and farmers markets into the inner cities.
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city.
I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest in places if there is no quality of life.
Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.
Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.
If people are prepared to eat locally and seasonally, then they probably do pretty well in terms of environmental impact.
In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.
People want real food. The demand for it is through the roof.
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