Design by Fire

Name: Design by Fire
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781032001494
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Resistance, Co-Creation and Retreat in the Pyrocene

By Emily Schlickman and Brett Milligan

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Design by Fire examines the increasing global risks of wildfires in the current age known as the Pyrocene. It explores humanity's evolving relationship with fire through 27 design case studies from around the world, situated in wildland-urban interfaces and adjacent wildlands. The book categorises strategies into resisting fire's transformative power, embracing and utilising it, or retreating to minimise human impact. Rather than offering definitive solutions, it presents techniques for consideration and experimentation amidst the challenges of fire and climate adaptation.
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This book is ideal for professionals and students in environmental design, urban planning, ecology, and climate adaptation fields, as well as anyone interested in innovative approaches to managing wildfire-prone landscapes.

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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, Design by Fire 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 catalogues these examples into three approaches: those that resist the creative and transformative power of fire and forces of landscape change, those that embrace and utilise those forces, and those that intentionally try to retreat and minimise 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781032001494

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 31 August 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 108 Halftones, color; 108 Illustrations, color

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 1020g

Pages: 340

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Arts & Culture Brett Milligan Education & Reference Emily Schlickman Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Emily Schlickman is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design at the University of California, Davis whose research explores design techniques for accelerated climate change. Schlickman received a BA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MLA from Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Brett Milligan is a landscape architect and Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design at the University of California, Davis. There he is the director of the Metamorphic Landscapes Lab, dedicated to prototyping landscape-based adaptations to conditions of accelerated climatic and environmental change, through extensive fieldwork and transdisciplinary design research. Much of his work is based in California, undoing and reworking colonial legacies of land reclamation, water infrastructure, flood control, and fire suppression. He is a co-founder of the Dredge Research Collaborative, a nonprofit organization dedicated to exploring the human alteration and design of sedimentary landscapes, and co-author of the book Silt Sand Slurry: Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making.