the expanded zone for wildfire building codes now includes more than 500 additional homes and buildings, according to an analysis by NPR. Los Angeles County must adopt the new zones by late July, ...

These are places, like Los Angeles, where whole communities face natural disasters. Gone are the days of thinking only about individual buildings. The scope is so much greater.

(Gavin Cater) Los Angeles is not the young city it once was; its architects, in the near future, will have to retrofit the city’s aging structures to meet the needs for building density.