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*Cities cover just 2% of the world's surface, but consume 75% of the world's resources Global food production increased by 145% in the last 4 decades of the 20th century - yet an estimated 800 million people are still hungry In 2005 British supermarkets sent half a million tonnes of edible food to landfill - the whole food sector put together sent 17 million tonnes 100 years ago, the average Brit ate 25kg of meat each year - now it's 80kg (and for Americans, 124kg) One quarter of the British population is obese - one in three meals we eat is a ready meal HY? ities need food. The bigger our cities become, the more food they need, and they want it as quickly, easily and cheaply as possible. In days gone by urbanites could, literally, see their food being walked into town with all the accompanying smell and filth. Today, we are shielded from the visceral realities of food by the sanitisation of modern mass production. We no longer have to put up with messy inconvenience when we eat; we can simply heat up a ready meal and forget about where the food came from, how it got to us, and what will happen to the packaging when we throw it away. But this is no more than a cosmetic sol

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Carolyn Steel is an architect, lecturer and writer. Since training at Cambridge, she has combined architectural practice with teaching and research into the everyday lives of cities, running design studios at the LSE, Metropolitan University and at Cambridge, where her lecture course 'Food and the City' is an established part of the degree programme. As well as being a director of Cullum and Nightingale Architects, she was a Rome scholar, has written for the architectural press, and has presented on the BBC's One Foot in the Past.

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