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California Burning: Architecture's Pyrocene Future
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.
California Burning: Architecture's Pyrocene Future
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.
California Burning: Architecture's Pyrocene Future
Stoner, Jill (author)
Architectural Design ; 93 ; 48-55
2023-03-01
1 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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