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To Forgive Design - Understanding Failure (Paperback)
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To Forgive Design - Understanding Failure (Paperback)
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When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks
explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Henry Petroski says
we must look beyond design for causes and corrections. Known for
his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures,
Petroski here takes his analysis a step further, to consider the
larger context in which accidents occur. In To Forgive Design he
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. Failure to imagine the possibility of failure is
the most profound mistake engineers can make. Software developers
realized this early on and looked outside their young field, to
structural engineering, as they sought a historical perspective to
help them identify their own potential mistakes. By explaining the
interconnectedness of technology and culture and the dangers that
can emerge from complexity, Petroski demonstrates that we would all
do well to follow their lead.
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