To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure

To Forgive Design - Understanding Failure

In To Forgive Design Henry Petroski surveys some of the most infamous failures of our time, from the 2007 Minneapolis bridge collapse and the toppling of a massive Shanghai apartment building in 2009 to Boston's prolonged Big Dig and the 2010 Gulf oil spill. These avoidable disasters reveal the interdependency of people and machines within systems whose complex behavior was undreamt of by their designers, until it was too late. Petroski shows that even the simplest technology is embedded in cultural and socioeconomic constraints, complications, and contradictions.

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Author Henry Petroski

ISBN 9780674416826

Category Design Books

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