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UK slash Radio 4 and now enjoy the podcast Cities, solid with noise, traffic and people, but cities need to eat and how this eating fits in with the great morass of bustle out on the streets

is coming into sharp focus here and around the world. Why well that's a question we'll be exploring in this program.

Food is what animates public space.

You know, this is very fundamental stuff.

You have to ask what a city's for.

You know, what are we doing here?

I mean, every society on earth evolved around

food. Food is what brought people out into the streets. It's what brought people together.

You know you had to go out and buy food. This is the point. You didn't drive to a supermarket and come back with

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