Please Stop Building Houses Exactly Where Wildfires Start
Please Stop Building Houses Exactly Where Wildfires Start
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
March 13, 20185m 3s
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Show Notes
Built well, a city should provide a bulwark against disaster. Fundamentally, all cities are fortresses. Or at least they should be. If a city is a fortress, where’s the wall? The edges of North American cities today aren’t edge-like at all. Most of them, especially in the West, ooze outward in a gradient, urban to suburban to exurban to rural to wild.
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