Disaster By Design

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Designing To Avoid Disaster

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Author : Thomas Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013

Designing To Avoid Disaster written by Thomas Fisher and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Architecture categories.

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.

Design For Disaster

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Author : Mark Stafford
language : en
Publisher: GO FACTS DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
Release Date : 2018-08-16

Design For Disaster written by Mark Stafford and has been published by GO FACTS DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-16 with Readers categories.

Disasters By Design

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Author : Dennis Mileti
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 1999-05-18

Disasters By Design written by Dennis Mileti and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-05-18 with Science categories.

Disasters by Design provides an alternative and sustainable way to view, study, and manage hazards in the United States that would result in disaster-resilient communities, higher environmental quality, inter- and intragenerational equity, economic sustainability, and improved quality of life. This volume provides an overview of what is known about natural hazards, disasters, recovery, and mitigation, how research findings have been translated into policies and programs; and a sustainable hazard mitigation research agenda. Also provided is an examination of past disaster losses and hazards management over the past 20 years, including factorsâ€"demographic, climate, socialâ€"that influence loss. This volume summarizes and sets the stage for the more detailed books in the series.

Catalogue Of The Library Of The Graduate School Of Design Harvard University

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Author : Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. Library
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968

Catalogue Of The Library Of The Graduate School Of Design Harvard University written by Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. Library and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Architectural design categories.

Disasters

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Author : Don Blattner
language : en
Publisher: Mark Twain Media
Release Date : 1999-03

Disasters written by Don Blattner and has been published by Mark Twain Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03 with Education categories.

Covers air and space disasters, earthquakes, fires, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes, terrorism and more.

Design Disaster

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Author : Margaret Gurevich
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2015-08

Design Disaster written by Margaret Gurevich and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08 with Juvenile Fiction categories.

When roommate issues and a new relationship get added to her already hectic life, can Chloe handle the fast-paced life of a designer and drama of being a teenager?

Construction Disasters

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Author : Steven S. Ross
language : en
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Release Date : 1984

Construction Disasters written by Steven S. Ross and has been published by McGraw-Hill Companies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Technology & Engineering categories.

Memoirs Of The Faculty Of Engineering And Design Kyoto Institute Of Technology

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997

Memoirs Of The Faculty Of Engineering And Design Kyoto Institute Of Technology written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Science categories.

Designing To Heal

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Author : Jenny Donovan
language : en
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Release Date : 2013-04-22

Designing To Heal written by Jenny Donovan and has been published by CSIRO PUBLISHING this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-22 with Architecture categories.

Designing to Heal explores what happens to communities that have suffered disasters, either natural or man-made, and what planners and urban designers can do to give the affected communities the best possible chance of recovery. It examines the relationship that people have with their surroundings and the profound disruption to people's lives that can occur when that relationship is violently changed; when the familiar settings for their lives are destroyed and family, friends and neighbours are displaced, incapacitated or killed. The book offers a model of the healing process, outlining the emotional journey that people go on as they struggle to rebuild their lives. It outlines the characteristics of the built environment that may facilitate people to travel as smoothly as possible down this road to recovery and suggests elements of the design process that can help achieve this goal. Designing to Heal highlights the importance of thinking about urban design as a way of nurturing hope and creating the optimal conditions to achieve social objectives.

Architecture Design

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-03

Architecture Design written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03 with Architecture categories.