infrastructure_reading response

Usually infrastructure means public system but everyone can use. In these days, infrastructure is so important because to develop the parts of any technology, we need stronger infrastructure. For example, without fast internet cable, new technology of telecommunication could be useless.

In this meaning, as definition said, infrastructure is basic system. It’s for functioning of a community or society (dictionary. Com, 1). Infrastructure means usually water supply, streets, highway that is directed under by government or state. Even though we could recognize, for social aspect, sharing the system goes to infrastructure’s meaning.

However, in the article, street transportation, it doesn’t mean system but also movement. With the example of railway, this article explained infrastructure devoted to the needs of movement within cities (24). From 1870s to 1880s, many cities started building the railway even though its speed was not as much as fast horse’s. However, for the mechanization of shipping, railway system needed and rail way could be developed more and more. Within the cities, horse was attractive, however, the transforming the any goods between cities, rail way was useful for amount and speed, too. After then, rail way system brought huge change of distribution transportation and the life style differences.

Because the effect of infrastructure is so strong, it is usually a job for government. As executive order EO 13010, all most all department need to work together for any case of infrastructure. It could bring huge change of civilian life with small fault or success. So government tries to go through carefully. This compromised opinion will decide programming the infrastructure even though it will take long time because it could be a social system itself.

in newyorker article, without saying infrastructure, the author explained about the concept of it. Referring familiar object, the author make us imagine how or what infrastructure could be. its explanation is so easy to understand like page 44
(26 feet in diameter,with smooth concrete walls, the tunnel~~) For this article, I could understand infrastructure in a common sense and could go further to architectural view.

Infrastructure is a kind of social aspect in capitalism country to balance the social system and economic profit. So even though sometimes it doesn’t work for every social people, their initial intention was started for restoring the benefit to people. Sometimes huge infrastructure disturbs our racing of development. However, I and you could use high ways, rail ways and internet because of infrastructure system,