“This origin story underlines how agriculture made cities possible, by providing enough food to feed a settled crowd on a…

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“This origin story underlines how agriculture made cities possible, by providing enough food to feed a settled crowd on a regular basis. Cities can’t work without farms, nor without watersheds that provide their water. So as central as cities are to modern civilisation, they are only one aspect of a system.”

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