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Countryside, City, People and Food
Šárka, Jan
Food is the most basic of all resources. Invention of agriculture was the beginning of human civilization. Throughout all history we have been firmly connected with the landscape that feed us. Even today most of our landscape is shaped by the historical relationship between settlements and the surrounding productiv area. Also the landscape has always reflected the shared values and common beliefs, in our case Christian religion. Natural relations are no longer valid a we have nothing to replace them. Original reliance of the city on the surrounding agricultural landscape is completely reversed. What earlier used to be self-sufficient country, is now a urban sprawl, completely depend to the proximity of the city. Today we live as atheists and urban people in a Christian and rural landscape, which we don‘t understand. Only a small percentage of people work in agriculture now. However the production of food changed our environment more than any other human activity and has significant environmental impacts. Our habits associated with food, eating patterns, our diet, food production and distribution all significantly influenced the formation of the cities. We have no choice than to redefine our relationship to the landscape and the needs to satisfy. This logically change the way of thinking about cities as well.
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