LEADER 03653oam 2200625 450 001 9910826350803321 005 20200301073150.0 010 $a1-136-28613-6 010 $a1-283-86206-9 010 $a1-136-28614-4 010 $a0-203-11329-2 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203113295 035 $a(CKB)2670000000312407 035 $a(EBL)1092774 035 $a(OCoLC)820787720 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000783058 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11442802 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000783058 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10753257 035 $a(PQKB)11585455 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1092774 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1092774 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10632455 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL417456 035 $a(OCoLC)897563525 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB134418 035 $a(UkLoBP)BP0065950337 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000312407 100 $a20180706d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDesigning to avoid disaster $ethe nature of fracture-critical design /$fThomas Fisher 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-52736-8 311 $a0-415-52735-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [229]-246) and index. 327 $apt. 1. The nature of fracture-critical design -- pt. 2. How fracture-critical design affects our lives -- pt. 3. Designing to avoid future disasters. 330 $a"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. 606 $aDesign$xMethodology 606 $aSafety factor in engineering 615 0$aDesign$xMethodology. 615 0$aSafety factor in engineering. 676 $a620.86 700 $aFisher$b Thomas$f1953-$0885941 801 0$bUkLoBP 801 1$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826350803321 996 $aDesigning to avoid disaster$93930041 997 $aUNINA