So looking at the historical and socially driven factors that have created ‘food deserts’ in the city, we can begin to understand that it will be the community level activation that seizes the opportunity to make the transition to ‘food prosperity’ and permacultural integration on an urban level.

Fortunately, we are already seeing this with the wide-spread re-adoption of ‘vacant lots to garden plots’, victory gardens, community gardens, CSAs and even rooftop farming, but the transition still requires new thinking and new energy..

Where does that new energy come from? Clearly from those that know to those that will embrace the ideal.

Here is where the transition to a permacultural future begins..

Schools are the current hubs that take up that responsibility to teach the younger generations all they need to know to co-exist in a successful and happy manner with the rest of the social fabric.

And as permaculture begins to be taught, just like arithmetic, science and english, the city will have the energy it needs to fully transform into it’s next iteration. It is clear that permaculture is nourishing many minds at this time, but the infrastructure of the social dynamics that creates and maintains the city life and city ways, is still not fully conscious of the role that permaculture will have in the future of city design. For this will take time..

Cities are evolving with the people that live, work and play within them. As the boundary effects of the built environments create undue pressures on the city inhabitants, people will find ways to create a healthier and more wholesome environment. And that is precisely the dream that permaculture holds. So as the young and the youthful awaken to that dream under the mentorship of wise ways of the long past when a form of permaculture was actually the norm, these young at hearts will see the way forward, and have the means to move towards it.