EPISODE · Mar 13, 2018 · 5 MIN
Please Stop Building Houses Exactly Where Wildfires Start
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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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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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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Please Stop Building Houses Exactly Where Wildfires Start
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