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RE the never-ending lockdown, I think this is also a decent parable for the way suburban life works in general. Third spaces just don't exist, or are a 5-10-20 minute drive away.

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Yes

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I must admit being distracted by images of 10,00 buildings burned and ascending numbers of dead in the California urban conflagration. Surely you will offer us a meditation on this complex reality.

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LA is primarily suburban, not urban. Part of the trouble is how much the sprawl has extended into the forested hinterlands of the mountains, where fires are the most likely.

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What I'm looking for is comment on the complex relationship between nature, demographics, and development. I'd like to see (some) meditation on the magnitude of the interrelatedness of everything we are talking about. Maybe Anselm Audley could help with that.

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