Designing to Avoid Disaster

Designing to Avoid Disaster
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9780415527354
ISBN-13 : 041552735X
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Download or read book Designing to Avoid Disaster written by Thomas Fisher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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