| Description |
1 online resource (273 pages) |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Designing to Avoid Disaster; Copyright page; Contents; Preface: Designed Catastrophes; Acknowledgments; Part I The Nature of Fracture-Critical Design; 1 The Increasing Incidence of Disasters; 2 Our Planetary Ponzi Scheme; 3 Fracture-Critical Design; 4 Disasters on Demand; 5 The Anti-Shock Doctrine; 6 Redefining Success; Part II How Fracture-Critical Design Affects Our Lives; 7 Fracture-Critical Species; 8 Re-sizing the Human Footprint; 9 Fracture-Critical Population; 10 Protective Design; 11 Fracture-Critical Economy; 12 Rethinking Work; 13 Fracture-Critical Politics |
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14 Reimagining Government15 Fracture-Critical Higher Education; 16 Redesigning the University; 17 Fracture-Critical Infrastructure; 18 Going Dutch; 19 Fracture-Critical Developments; 20 A Better Way to Dwell; 21 Fracture-Critical Buildings; 22 Designing for Durability; 23 Fracture-Critical Consumption; 24 Creative Citizen Consumption; Part III Designing to Avoid Future Disasters; 25 Why We Have So Much Bad Design; 26 The Design Mind; 27 The Process of Design; 28 The Logic of Design; 29 The Pragmatics of Design; 30 The Holon of Design; 31 Designing Our Future; 32 What We Can Live Without |
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33 The Adulthood of the Species34 Media, Metaphor, and Meaning; 35 The Nature of Things to Come; 36 Hell or Paradise?; Notes; Illustration Credits; Index |
| Summary |
Author Thomas Fisher introduces the idea of fracture-critical design and provides many solutions for how we can design to avoid major disasters |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-146) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Design -- Methodology
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Safety factor in engineering.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Industrial Health & Safety.
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Design -- Methodology
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Safety factor in engineering
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136286148 |
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1136286144 |
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0203113292 |
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9780203113295 |
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