Does another city appear from the Los Angeles fire?
The fire has been promptly tracked over and over again. After the Great Fire in 1666, we expanded the safety law in London and the street, and built a new public building like a dome -shaped St. Paul Cathedral. After the destruction of downtown, Chicago invented a modern American city in a high -rise building in a new fangle steel frame.
Los Angeles' fire is probably not a dramatic one, except to tighten elaborate building standards. First of all, it is a very different kind of city and a city that is not concentrated around the center. The fire destroyed the Pacific Parisards and Altadena, mainly in the flashy chapalal. Where was the problem of how those areas were built?
But other than climate and urban circles, arguing about escaping people from the harm is not the purpose of the mind at this time. The focus is to return the refugees to the community. Not all people who have lost the house can be selected or returned, but I still evacuated in the process of conversation in Altadena's road, Malibu's living room, and other places in the city. I haven't met Angeleno. I don't want to go back. Replacing those houses is expensive in a struggle.
Rebuilding the community is still difficult.
Of course, as long as people live in this area, their risks have been burned in Los Angeles. The rich and famous history of the city contains a stable drumbeat for fire, landslides, floods, drought, and earthquakes. The latest fire was different from Angelenos, and the unusually intense Santaanana wind was combined with a drought that changed tens of square miles into tanders, from hills and gorge. There is a risk that the remaining fire will blow into the city's flatland. For a wildfire.
“I have designed three buildings on Hollywood Boulevard for many years,” said a veteran Los Angeles architect, John Charismeki, said, “And there is no risk of the wildfire that has been raised as a problem. did.”
“We live in the southern two miles of sunset Bullbird,” he added. This was a new one. “
I asked Chariski if he was now considering moving. He paused. Maybe he said.
To Altadena.
“It's a great place,” he said.
That is the reality of Los Angeles. Altadena is a wonderful neighborhood. Outsiders continue to find Los Angeles as a vast suburbs in search of the center. In fact, it is one of the most dense cities in Japan, a clear, distant, complex neighborhood collection. Many of these areas on the hills dated their generations long before the car arrived.
“LA's historic agreement is always an urban life in an amenities in a large city, but lives in the wild,” said California, California at the University of South California. Devellel is yourself. “Fire has just clarified the cost of the agreement more clearly than ever.”
The agreement was sold by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce to the Midwest with the inextricated east coast, and suffered from tuberculosis pandemic in the 1870s. In Southern California. Mountain air is a treatment for tuberculosis, and orange trees promised that they can grow outside your kitchen window.
The pitch is working. Suidobashi, one of the signals of American engineering in the early 20th century, immediately absorbs hundreds of miles of water from the north and erases the population that rapidly expands the population settled in San Fernando Valley. Was built in. The world's most widespread tram network was created to transport all of these people throughout the balloon.
The booster also promoted a rigid -curing madness of the los Angeles governance structure. Today, Los Angeles is only one of the 88 cities in Los Angeles County. This is one of several counties that constitutes a larger region in Los Angeles. At the turn of the previous century, a newcomer trying to build a detached house on a hill promised freedom to establish his own town.
Altadena remains the unintracted area of Los Angeles County, and has provided services on trams until the 1940s. There are wealthy workers and middle -class residents, including artists, musicians, natural back types, nearby Cartec scholars, and historic black communities. Many of the social and physical fabrics in the neighborhood are now in a shambles. One day, I passed the National Security Army and investigated the damage, and even after seeing the image in the news, I was surprised at the destruction that did not seem to be a result -as a burnt chimney, the melted steel, toxic ash.
Later, I hit Camilla Lease and her two young sons, Kobi and James, and hit a few blocks of Pasadena. Pasadena's sudden normal nature seemed almost surreal. Bookstores have become a temporary rescue center. One of the myriad companies in the area offered to support refugees. After the attack on the whole region, the New York was reminiscent of the September 11 attack.
Leasing told me that her family had lived in Altadena for generations. “I have no doubt in my heart,” she said. She wants to go back. So I asked her if the extreme breeze and fire had never thought about her neighborhood safe.
She said, “No,” she shook his head violently. “The fire indicated that there is no safe place.”
It was the reaction I heard from other evacuated Angelenos. If the extreme weather means that there is no safe place now, the house is the safest alternative. Altadena is a lease house. That's where she knows everyone. “It's my community,” she said.
And that's an issue to move forward. Alejandla Guerero, a non -profit company, Los Angeles architect, pointed out. “The focus is at home, but the reconstruction of the community is different.”
When people talked about what they lost, Elizabeth Tim, the company's joint execution director of the company, said, “I remember that they went to a corner store or met the child's principal at a burned school. “
Michael Marzan, a 6th architect in Los Angeles, agreed in other projects, “it's not easy.” His family had to evacuate when Eaton Fire threatened to overrun the gorge near their house. It takes years to rebuild it, including additional building standards that can increase construction costs, and may not only improve the neighborhood but also to develop new forms that can be changed. “The problem is whether the evacuated residents are regarded as pure positive or negative communities,” he said.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has recently signed two bills that provide $ 2.5 billion funding, and issues an execution order to stop permission and screening requirements to revive devastated houses and companies. did. Pause means that these permissions and reviews were not particularly necessary in the first place -or that speed suddenly became more important than safety -but in any case, the steps would recover. I intend to do.
Nevertheless, the authorities estimate that it will take several months before the construction is started. On the other hand, a long -bent process to collect losses will irritate a small number of evacuees. Insurance may evaporate after a state of suspension of cancellation for cancellation for evacuated housing owners, complicating the loan.
And the private equity company is already on the wings. If a nearby swears like Altadena is acquired by a stock investor who is considering making money, the neighborhood will be not only doubt but also affordable. State and local officials argue that these companies will prevent it from doing it.
I understand.
Chicago took decades to come out of the fire. New York is still rebuilding a low -ostide park, which was flooded 13 years ago between Hurricane Sandy. The city says that “it will evolve on a 100 -year basis” is a method for architect Chariski to put it, and in Los Angeles, the neighborhood of Clean Show is the focus of various updates since the 1940s. Bunkerhill since the 1920s.
In the Los Angeles design community, many discussions have permeated new building materials and future moon shots of new houses. California and the city were trying to build more housing to address the shortage before the fire. In recent years, the state has issued tens of thousands of permissions because the planner has been paid to what the most permit in Los Angeles in Los Angeles and the accessory residential unit, but most of us are flat for grandmother. I know. hell.
Flatland has enough space to support more houses that do not convert the neighborhood. One century ago, Los Angeles pioneered one of low -layer, high -density, and wonderful architectural types around the shared courtyard that residents accessed outdoors. 。 Los Angeles was able to return to the future.
But does a fire directly affect the lack of housing? Misunderstandings about water supply have already distorted recovery conversations. Los Angeles will hold the World Cup and the summer Olympics next year in 2028. Loinomy begins.
Who remembered the Berair fire in 1961 today? Hundreds of houses, including many celebrity houses, have been destroyed. Like the flames of Parisade and Eaton, the air fire of the bell is driven by Santa Anagerus, and it is a new one that does not need to clean the brush from around the house for new construction. It led to the law. There was a question about the livability in the hills. But people have returned to Bell Air. The disaster slipped down the memory shot.
Woolsie's fire was only six and a half years ago. It burned nearly 97,000 acres, burned more than twice the territory destroyed by the Parisard and Eaton mountain fire, erased more than 1,600 structures, causing evacuation of 295,000 people. I visited a Maribu's house designed by architect Jeffrey von Oien. It survived the recent fire. A few weeks ago, another fire broke up an underbrush that hindered the latest flames in the gorge, so the Parisade fire did not reach a new home.
An architect, the owner of the lower house, said his insurance company had already canceled his insurance a few months before the recent fire, and he was stressed and terrified. But he was not moving. He and his brother grew up just above the hill in a house designed by his father.
He said this was a house.
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