To Forgive Design
Understanding Failure
1st Edition
Published on 13. April 2012
978-0-674-06889-6 (ISBN)
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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.
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03/2012
The Belknap Press
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