On 7/6/07, Chris Kantarjiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But my point about scale is not the cities themselves, but the surrounding area. The larger the city, the larger the required food infrastructure to support it. The larger that infrastructure, the more vast the distance between the housing to manage the land.
Is that necessarily true? If you assume industrial farming, certainly, but not if you assume an existing fundamentally agrarian rural society composed of lots of small family farms. You need a way of aggregating the production and a transportation infrastructure, but that doesn't imply widespread ownership of personal automobiles. -- Charles
