cephalotus wrote:And why is a high oil price a problem for the city? The exact opposite is true. 10US$ / liter of diesel will not be a problem for food transport into the city. Just do the maths and take a 40t truck, that needs 40l/100km diesel and lets say that they have to drive 200km to bring 40t of food into the city.
This makes 800US$ diesel for 40.000kg of food or 2ct/1kg of food.
At 10 US$ per liter (~35US$/gal) !!!
babystrangeloop wrote:That's assuming 40t of food can be found 200km from the city.
What happens in the winter time?
Is 200km radius enough? What about cities on the coast?
Plus you have to ignore all the fuel used to raise the food and process it and package it etc.
Plus the return trip for the truck, you have to double your price calculations or cut your distance in half.
Urban Future – what does the future of cities look like?
Saskia Sassen and Charles Landry at PICNIC11 / October 21, 2011
US sociologist Saskia Sassen and British city urbanist and publicist Charles Landry in the interview with 2010LAB.tv.
In her presentations and publications ( Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages, 2006 and A Sociology of Globalization, 2007) sociology professor Sassen provides analysis on topics such as Globalisation, Migration and City Development and describes the phenomenon of the so-called global city.
Landry has been studying the ramifications of the factors culture and creativity on city development since the 1970s. He attaches great importance to their creative potential with regards to a city's survival. His four-level strategy to create a creative city is much wanted in the course of this work as international consultant for city planning.
They were sought-after speakers and discussion partners on the festival topic "Urban Futures" at this year's PICNIC 11 in Amsterdam. They spoke about their analysis and visions with 2010LAB.tv.p
If we really try to relocalize food production--relocalize as much as we can--we will need a larger scale. If we can't import the food from where ever we want to, we will need more facilities to do that. ... and we have so much inequality you will get poor workers right there...in villages around the big city.
Farms can't find pickers
In some areas, farm labor is so scarce that inmates in nearby penitentiaries are picking crops.
By Douglas French, Guest blogger / C.S. Monitor / October 20, 2011
... Depending upon which government unemployment figure you follow, nearly one in five Americans is unemployed. Yet at harvest time farmers are finding that the only willing labor has to come from a nearby penitentiary.
In Idaho, farm labor is so scarce, convicts from the minimum-security St. Anthony Work Camp are picking, sorting and packing spuds for $7.50 an hour and happy to have work outside the prison walls. “The best part is you have the influence of the real world, which eventually we’re all going back to,” said Thomas Alworth, a 36-year-old convicted of grand theft by possession.
Convict labor in Arizona is up 30 percent this year, with Arizona’s tough immigration law a primary reason. “The crackdown on immigrants just makes it so hard” to find workers, said Richard Selapack, vice president for labor contracts at the Arizona Department of Corrections. ...
cephalotus wrote:You do store your wheat and don't import it from Australia.babystrangeloop wrote:What happens in the winter time?
OilFinder2 wrote:Here's the city of the future.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tanada wrote:This is your city of the future, towers built to be hyper energy efficient oriented to take the best advantage of solar energy to power themselves, likely with additional renewable energy sources along the roof line, surrounded by parks and wilderness with rail lines feeding in food and supplies via underground systems.
Newfie wrote:Funny, I find Tanadas and SumYunGais pictures about equally appealing.
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