Carolyn Steel: How food shapes our cities

http://www.ted.com Every day, in a city the size of London, 30 million meals are served. But where does all the food come from? Architect Carolyn Steel discusses the daily miracle of feeding a city, and shows how ancient food routes shaped the modern world. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10 Follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/tednews  Checkout our Facebook page for TED exclusives at https://www.facebook.com/TED

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["TEDTalks", "TED", "talks", "Carolyn Steel", "food", "shapes", "cities", "foods", "city", "grain", "meat", "efficiency", "diet", "food source", "permaculture", "urbanization", "urbanism", "production", "corporation", "corporations", "agriculture", "agricultural", "farm", "natural world", "ancient world", "history", "world history", "geography", "urban studies", "society", "sitopia", "government", "architecture", "food planning", "planning", "development", "infrastructure", "economics", "politics", "environment"]

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Duration minutes: 15

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