{"id":2515,"date":"2011-08-11T09:41:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T13:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2011-08-11T10:31:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T14:31:47","slug":"infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/cag1110-L0872-pipe.jpg\" alt=\"corrugated pipe\"><br \/>\nInfrastructure is basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function.<br \/>\nThe term typically refers to the technical structures that support a society, such as roads, water supply, sewers, electrical grids, telecommunications, and so forth, and can be defined as &#8220;the physical components of interrelated systems providing commodities and services essential to enable, sustain, or enhance societal living conditions.&#8221;&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Infrastructure\">Wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nInfrastructure can inspire. Carefully engineered, lasting projects are beautiful and cost effective. The Aqua Virgo, an aqueduct supplying Rome with drinking water, was constructed in 19BC, and renovated in 1453.<br \/>\nThe large diameter galvanized pipes above are shopping center infrastructure. Presumably, they&#8217;ll be buried beneath the ground and deal with storm water unable to penetrate the acres of impervious surface that are part of this new consumer Shangri-La. Could the rainwater be kept on top of the ground in a series of streams, meadows and lakes and allowed to infiltrate? The landscaping could be beautiful and functional. Maybe that is part of the plan? UVA, locally, leads in <a href=\"http:\/\/ehs.virginia.edu\/ehs\/ehs.stormwater\/stormwater.projects.html#7\">daylighting piped streams and dealing with stormwater intelligently<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/cag1110-A3113-corrugated-pipe.jpg\" alt=\"corrugated pipe\"><br \/>\nOne thing for sure. This is short term infrastructure. No one will be renovating this installation in a millennium. The useful life of corrugated pipe is measured in decades. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infrastructure is basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function. The term typically refers to the technical structures that support a society, such as roads, water supply, sewers, electrical grids, telecommunications, and so forth, and can be defined &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/infrastructure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;infrastructure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[40,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dictionary","category-riverine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2521,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions\/2521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}