what is that all about?

infrastructure/public facilities that leads to a quality of life

Monday, December 15, 2008

Introduction

for the introduction i would like to define the subject of my blog site that i need to be done...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Quality of life is the degree of well-being felt by an individual or group of people.

Unlike standard of living, quality of life is not a tangible thing, and so cannot be measured directly. It consists of two components: physical and psychological. The physical aspect includes things such as health, diet, and protection against pain and disease. The psychological aspect includes stress, worry, pleasure and other positive or negative emotional states.

Infrastructure typically means to the technical structures that support a society, such as roads, water supply, wastewater, power grids, flood management systems, telecommunications (Internet, telephone lines, broadcasting), and so forth. In the past, these systems have typically been owned and managed by local or central governments. These various elements may collectively be termed civil infrastructure, municipal infrastructure, or simply public works, although they may be developed and operated in the private sector or in public-private partnership in additional to in the public sector. Viewed functionally, infrastructure facilitates the production of goods and services; for example, roads enable the transport of raw materials to the production plant and distribution of finished products to markets.


(Pic): Interstate 80, the second-longest U.S. Interstate highway, runs from California to New Jersey


Recent efforts to devise more generic definitions of infrastructure have typically referred to the network aspects of most of the structures and to the accumulated value of investments in the networks as assets. One such effort defines infrastructure as the network of assets "where the system as a whole is intended to be maintained indefinitely at a specified standard of service by the continuing replacement and refurbishment of its components."[1] However, the principles that civil infrastructure is meant to have unlimited service life and always provide some specified minimum standard of service are neither inherent to the concept nor generally accepted by the societies served.

In other applications, the term infrastructure may refer to information technology, informal and formal channels of communication, software development tools, political and social networks, or beliefs held by members of particular groups. Still underlying these more conceptual uses is the idea that infrastructure provides organizing structure and support for the system or organization it serves, whether it is a city, a nation, a corporation, or a collection of people with common interests.

From my point of view infrastructure or so called public facilities for the people are more or less based on the physical development to an area. These physical development such as roads are important in urban planning to bring facilities from urban area to less developed area in order to achieve quality in life among the people in terms of economy and socially.

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