Designing to Avoid DisasterDesigning to Avoid Disaster

"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. 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 every day. Shows how the natural environment and the human population itself have both begun to move on a path toward a fracture-critical collapse that we need to do everything to avoid." --P.[2] cover.