Download or read book Civil Engineering: A Very Short Introduction written by David Muir Wood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.