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’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. Some megacities cycle through suburban and exurban forms without ever manifesting anything that looks like a downtown, much less a high street. https://www.wired.com/story/please-stop-building-houses-exactly-where-wildfires-start/
Article courtesy of Wired by Adam Rogers