Civil engineering : a very short introduction /
David Muir Wood.
- 1st ed.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- xiv, 143 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
- Very short introduction ; Vol.331 .
Includes bibliographical references: (pages 133-135) and index.
Civil engineering produces the structures of all human settlements worldwide. In this Very Short Introduction, David Muir Wood demonstrates the nature and importance of civil engineering; not only in the history of civilization and urbanization, but its range of facets today, and its challenges for the future.