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safe-to-fail: a standalone construct

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Infrastructure resilience

designing urban systems to fail gracefully and recover, rather than trying to prevent every failure through fail-safe engineering.

In infrastructure resilience, safe-to-fail refers to designing urban systems to fail gracefully and recover, rather than trying to prevent every failure through fail-safe engineering. This meaning comes from Ahern (2011) in Landscape and Urban Planning.[1]

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References

Ahern, J. (2011). From fail-safe to safe-to-fail: Sustainability and resilience in the new urban world. Landscape and Urban Planning, 100(4), 341-343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.02.021

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