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Engineering, Transport & Making

Civil engineering & construction

Civil engineering & construction sits within Engineering, Transport & Making. Look at how a practical problem becomes a design, a process, or a working physical object. This selection contains 70 catalog videos from 47 distinct channels. The examples below offer specific entry points into the subject, with their own vocabulary and scope, rather than a prescribed sequence of lessons.

Recurring catalog topics include civil engineering, infrastructure, housing, tom scott, urbanism and architecture. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include comedy, commentary, demo, documentary, explainer, lecture, news, other, podcast, talk and tutorial. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.

“Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere) [ST05]”, listed under Not Just Bikes, is cataloged as explainer. Not Just Bikes introduces the "stroad", a street-road hybrid common in the US and Canada that fails at both jobs. He contrasts it with Dutch design, where each road has a single…

“1. How Buildings Learn - Stewart Brand - 1 of 6 - “Flow””, listed under Stewart Brand, is cataloged as documentary. The first episode of Stewart Brand's 1997 BBC series based on his book How Buildings Learn, covering how buildings change after they are built. Brand presents and the series has music by…

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