To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure
To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure
$27.95
Petroskik, Henry.
Harvard 2012
SKU 91388
When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Petroski, known for his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures, says we must look beyond design to the interdependency of people and machines within complex socioeconomic systems undreamt of by designers. In To Forgive Design he surveys some of the most infamous failures of our time. These avoidable disasters reveal the interdependency of people and machines within systems whose complex behavior was undreamt of until it was to late.
303 pp. Cl
