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Designing To Avoid Disaster: The Nature of Fracture-Critical Design

AUTHOR Fisher, Thomas
PUBLISHER Routledge (08/28/2012)
PRODUCT TYPE Hardcover (Hardcover)

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Author Thomas Fisher introduces the idea of fracture-critical design and provides many solutions for how we can design to avoid major disasters.

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ISBN-13: 9780415527354
ISBN-10: 041552735X
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 268
Carton Quantity: 26
Product Dimensions: 5.50 x 0.63 x 8.50 inches
Weight: 1.02 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Bibliography, Index, Illustrated
Country of Origin: US
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Technology & Engineering | Industrial Health & Safety
Technology & Engineering | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development
Technology & Engineering | Sustainability & Green Design
Dewey Decimal: 620.86
Library of Congress Control Number: 2011051098
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Author Thomas Fisher introduces the idea of fracture-critical design and provides many solutions for how we can design to avoid major disasters.

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Author: Fisher, Thomas
Thomas Fisher is dean of the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota. He is the former editor of Progressive Architecture magazine and is the author of In the Scheme of Things (Minnesota, 2000). David Salmela is a self-trained architect practicing in Duluth, Minnesota. Since 1985 his projects have won fourteen Minnesota AIA Honor Awards and sixteen national level awards including a National AIA Honor Award for Architecture.
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