Design by Fire: Resistance, Co-Creation and Retreat in the Pyrocene, 1st Edition

.Across the world, the risks of wildfires are increasing and expanding. Due to past and current human actions, we dwell in the age of fire – the Pyrocene – and the many challenges and climate adaptation questions it provokes. Exploring our past and current relationships with fire, this book speculates on the pyro futures yet to be designed and cared for. Drawing upon fieldwork, mapping, drone imagery, and interviews, this publication curates 27 global design case studies within the vulnerable and dynamic wildland-urban interface and its adjacent wildlands. The book catalogs these examples into three approaches: those that resist the creative and transformative power of fire and forces of landscape change, those that embrace and utilize those forces, and those that intentionally try to retreat and minimize human intervention in fire-prone landscapes. Rather than serving as a book of neatly packaged solutions, it is a book of techniques to be considered, tested, and evaluated in a time of fire.Design by Fire: Resistance, Co-Creation and Retreat in the Pyrocene 1st Edition is written by Emily Schlickman; Brett Milligan and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Design by Fire are 9781000903218, 1000903214 and the print ISBNs are 9781032001494, 1032001496. Additional ISBNs include 9781003172956, 9780367767617, 9781000903171.