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Routledge - Designing To Avoid Disaster Book

Name: Routledge - Designing To Avoid Disaster Book
Brand: Routledge
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Explore the concept of fracture-critical design with this essential text from Routledge. Author Thomas Fisher examines how modern structures and systems often lack the necessary redundancy to prevent total failure. By analyzing high-profile catastrophes, such as the I-35W bridge collapse, the Fukushima nuclear plant devastation, and the BP oil spill, this book provides a deep look into why interconnectedness and misguided efficiency can lead to systemic collapse. Readers will learn how design choices in architecture, engineering, and even financial systems can create vulnerabilities. Whether looking at the destruction caused by earthquakes in Port au Prince or the housing foreclosure epidemic, the text explains how systems fail completely when a single component does not perform as intended. This book is a vital resource for understanding how to build more resilient structures and avoid the pitfalls of interconnected, low-redundancy design in a complex world.

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Examines the concept of fracture-critical design and how it leads to systemic failure in modern structures.

Analyzes real-world catastrophic events including bridge collapses, oil spills, and nuclear plant devastation.

Explores the relationship between misguided efficiency and the lack of redundancy in complex systems.

Provides insights into how interconnectedness affects the stability of architectural and financial systems.

Offers a detailed look at why certain designs fail completely when a single part does not perform as intended.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 041552735X
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Architecture > Types of Architecture
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 August 2012
Listed Since: 25 November 2011

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