Civil Engineering
- Page ID
- 9342
Civil engineering deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewerage systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings, and railways
- Book: Building Information - Representation and Management - Fundamentals and Principles
- The book presents a coherent theory of building information, focusing on its representation and management in the digital era. It addresses issues such as the information explosion and the structure of analog building representations to propose a parsimonious approach to the deployment and utilization of symbolic digital technologies like BIM.
- Book: Introduction to Design Equity (Miller)
- Why do affluent, liberal, and design-rich cities like Minneapolis have some of the biggest racial disparities in the country? How can designers help to create more equitable communities? Introduction to Design Equity, an open access book for students and professionals, maps design processes and products against equity research to highlight the pitfalls and potentials of design as a tool for building social justice.
- Front Matter
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Learning to Talk about Racism
- 3: Why History Matters to Design Equity
- 4: Health Equity and the Built Environment
- 5: Transportation Equity
- 6: Information Equity
- 7: What is Design Thinking and What does it have to do with Equity?
- 8: Discipline-Specific Professional Design Processes and Equity
- Back Matter