Abstract
As our planet gets hotter, California suffers the devastating effects of increasingly large annual wildfires. However, in honouring the wisdom of the trees, Berkeley architecture professor and writer Jill Stoner describes how, contrary to popular belief, such pyrotechnic events have many advantages for ecological diversity.
Author supplied keywords
- Annie Dillard
- Ansel Adams
- Bay Area architects
- Butte County
- California Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Code
- Camp Fire
- Cecil B DeMille
- Central Valley
- Ecology of Fear
- Geese
- General Sherman
- Gold Rush
- Hollywood hills
- John Muir
- Manifest Destiny
- Mike Davis
- Miwok
- Molly Fisk
- Native Americans
- Oakland Hills
- Paradise
- Pyrocene
- Robin Kimmerer
- Silicon Valley
- Stephen Pyne
- Tol-le-loo
- Tulare County
- Turtle Island
- Valley People
- Yosemite National Park
- sequoia
- ‘The Case for Letting Malibu Burn’
- ‘cultural burns’
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APA
Stoner, J. (2023). California Burning: Architecture’s Pyrocene Future. Architectural Design, 93(2), 48–55. https://doi.org/10.1002/ad.2914
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