Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Thousands of new homes and businesses will be built to replace the ones that were incinerated by the Los Angeles County fires this month. Done properly, the rebuilding could create more resilient communities. Poorly done and the structures will be tomorrow’s fire fuel. Join a panel of experts to learn the right — and wrong — ways to rebuild L.A.
Moderator:
Sarah Pilla, Climate Reporter, Spectrum News1
Panelists:
Christopher Boone, USC Price Dean and Director of USC Urban Futures
Santina Contreras, USC Price Assistant Professor of Environmental Planning
Richard Green, Chair, USC Price Wilbur H. Smith III Department of Real Estate Development
William Deverell, Historian and Co-Director of The West on Fire
Thousands of new homes and businesses will be built to replace the ones that were incinerated by the Los Angeles County fires this month. Done properly, the rebuilding could create more resilient communities. Poorly done and the structures will be tomorrow’s fire fuel. Join a panel of experts to learn the right — and wrong — ways to rebuild L.A.
Moderator:
Sarah Pilla, Climate Reporter, Spectrum News1
Panelists:
Christopher Boone, USC Price Dean and Director of USC Urban Futures
Santina Contreras, USC Price Assistant Professor of Environmental Planning
Richard Green, Chair, USC Price Wilbur H. Smith III Department of Real Estate Development
William Deverell, Historian and Co-Director of The West on Fire
