Format:
1 online resource (273 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781136286148
Content:
Author Thomas Fisher introduces the idea of fracture-critical design and provides many solutions for how we can design to avoid major disasters
Note:
Front Cover -- Designing to Avoid Disaster -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface: Designed Catastrophes -- Acknowledgments -- Part I The Nature of Fracture-Critical Design -- 1 The Increasing Incidence of Disasters -- 2 Our Planetary Ponzi Scheme -- 3 Fracture-Critical Design -- 4 Disasters on Demand -- 5 The Anti-Shock Doctrine -- 6 Redefining Success -- Part II How Fracture-Critical Design Affects Our Lives -- 7 Fracture-Critical Species -- 8 Re-sizing the Human Footprint -- 9 Fracture-Critical Population -- 10 Protective Design -- 11 Fracture-Critical Economy -- 12 Rethinking Work -- 13 Fracture-Critical Politics -- 14 Reimagining Government -- 15 Fracture-Critical Higher Education -- 16 Redesigning the University -- 17 Fracture-Critical Infrastructure -- 18 Going Dutch -- 19 Fracture-Critical Developments -- 20 A Better Way to Dwell -- 21 Fracture-Critical Buildings -- 22 Designing for Durability -- 23 Fracture-Critical Consumption -- 24 Creative Citizen Consumption -- Part III Designing to Avoid Future Disasters -- 25 Why We Have So Much Bad Design -- 26 The Design Mind -- 27 The Process of Design -- 28 The Logic of Design -- 29 The Pragmatics of Design -- 30 The Holon of Design -- 31 Designing Our Future -- 32 What We Can Live Without -- 33 The Adulthood of the Species -- 34 Media, Metaphor, and Meaning -- 35 The Nature of Things to Come -- 36 Hell or Paradise? -- Notes -- Illustration Credits -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Fisher, Thomas Designing to Avoid Disaster Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415527354
Language:
English
Keywords:
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