Design for Safety (Parkins)

In the decades leading up to September 11, 2001, architects and structural engineers had been influential innovators in skyscraper design and construction, experimenting with ways to make them not only visually appealing but safe. Fire, earthquakes and hurricanes are a couple of the areas where design has been able to alleviate risk.

I would like to find out:

1. In the years following September 11, 2001, the ways in which the design community has been considering terrorist attacks and safety from it in their work, if at all.
2. How architectural innovation could be used to help keep people, buildings and communities safer in the event of another attack.

The article will also cover how architects and engineers view safety; how well or poorly, innovative ideas have been received and; the costs associated with developing and implementing new design features.