Please Stop Building Houses Exactly Where Wildfires Start
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\u2019s the wall? The edges of North American cities today aren\u2019t 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.