Is food a missing ingredient in australia's metropolitan planning strategies?

Abstract

This chapter examines the historical relationship between cities, their food supply and the planning of large metropolitan areas and how this relationship has changed. In particular the chapter focuses on the Australian metropolitan scene, but it also includes reference to the role of food in contemporary metropolitan planning strategies in selected cities in the developed world. The chapter speculates that a greater range of forces is now likely to see food play an increasingly more important role in the preparation of metropolitan planning strategies.