essential urbanism

While foodscapes such as thisWisconsin dairy farm still exist and are still productive this is not the landscape feeding urban society.  The forces of modernity and industrialization that have created our burgeoning population have also responded for our need for exponentially more food.  The modern city made of modern men rely on modern foodscapes for further development, yet we are also dependent on their disappearance.  Food has been removed to urban hinterlands or cloaked in corrugated mega-box warehouses, removed from our daily lives to avoid disruption, ensure control.  Fundamentally urban, extreme, but essential, these are the spaces of modern food: