03653oam 2200625 450 991082635080332120200301073150.01-136-28613-61-283-86206-91-136-28614-40-203-11329-210.4324/9780203113295 (CKB)2670000000312407(EBL)1092774(OCoLC)820787720(SSID)ssj0000783058(PQKBManifestationID)11442802(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000783058(PQKBWorkID)10753257(PQKB)11585455(MiAaPQ)EBC1092774(Au-PeEL)EBL1092774(CaPaEBR)ebr10632455(CaONFJC)MIL417456(OCoLC)897563525(FINmELB)ELB134418(UkLoBP)BP0065950337(EXLCZ)99267000000031240720180706d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDesigning to avoid disaster the nature of fracture-critical design /Thomas FisherNew York :Routledge,2012.1 online resource (273 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-52736-8 0-415-52735-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-246) and index.pt. 1. The nature of fracture-critical design -- pt. 2. How fracture-critical design affects our lives -- pt. 3. Designing to avoid future disasters."Recent catastrophic events, such as the I-35W bridge collapse, New Orleans flooding, the BP oil spill, Port au Prince's destruction by earthquake, Fukushima nuclear plant's devastation by tsunami, the Wall Street investment bank failures, and the housing foreclosure epidemic and the collapse of housing prices, all stem from what author Thomas Fisher calls fracture-critical design. This is design in which structures and systems have so little redundancy and so much interconnectedness and misguided efficiency that they fail completely if any one part does not perform as intended. If we, as architects, planners, engineers, and citizens are to predict and prepare for the next disaster, we need to recognize this error in our thinking and to understand how design thinking provides us with a way to anticipate unintended failures and increase the resiliency of the world in which we live. In Designing to Avoid Disaster, the author discusses the context and cultural assumptions that have led to a number of disasters worldwide, describing the nature of fracture-critical design and why it has become so prevalent. He traces the impact of fracture-critical thinking on everything from our economy and politics to our educational and infrastructure systems to the communities, buildings, and products we inhabit and use everyday. And he shows how the natural environment and human population itself have both begun to move on a path toward a fracture-critical collapse that we need to do everything possible to avoid. We designed our way to such disasters and we can design our way out of them, with a number of possible solutions that Fisher provides"--Provided by publisher.DesignMethodologySafety factor in engineeringDesignMethodology.Safety factor in engineering.620.86Fisher Thomas1953-885941UkLoBPUkLoBPBOOK9910826350803321Designing to avoid disaster3930041UNINA00789nas 22002772a 450 991040205230332120240413012544.0(CKB)991042754055024(CONSER)sn-98000999-(EXLCZ)9999104275405502419980706a19989999 --- -engtxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCountry reviewZimbabweHouston, TX Commercial Data International1 online resourcePrint version: Country review. 1520-071X (DLC)sn-98000999- (OCoLC)39395839 Zimbabwe968.91JOURNAL9910402052303321exl_impl conversionCountry review2425273UNINA