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To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure

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To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure

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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Belknap Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-03-30
Format Kindle eBook