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| The [[word]] '''infrastructure''' according to ''Etymology Online'' has been used in [[English]] since at least 1927 and meant: The installations that form the basis for any operation or [[system]]. The [[Oxford English Dictionary]] traces the word's [[origins]] to earlier usage, originally applied in a military sense. | | The [[word]] '''infrastructure''' according to ''Etymology Online'' has been used in [[English]] since at least 1927 and meant: The installations that form the basis for any operation or [[system]]. The [[Oxford English Dictionary]] traces the word's [[origins]] to earlier usage, originally applied in a military sense. |
| <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Infrastructure''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Infrastructure '''''this link'''''].</center> | | <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Infrastructure''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Infrastructure '''''this link'''''].</center> |
− | The word was imported from French, where it means subgrade, the native [[material]] underneath a constructed pavement or railway. The word is a combination of the [[Latin]] prefix "infra", [[meaning]] "below" and "[[structure]]". The military sense of the word was probably first used in France, and imported into English around the time of the [[First World War]]. The military use of the term achieved currency in the United States after the formation of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO NATO] in the 1940s, and was then adopted by urban planners in its modern civilian sense by 1970. [6], . | + | The word was imported from French, where it means subgrade, the native [[material]] underneath a constructed pavement or railway. The word is a combination of the [[Latin]] prefix "infra", [[meaning]] "below" and "[[structure]]". The military sense of the word was probably first used in France, and imported into English around the time of the [[First World War]]. The military use of the term achieved currency in the United States after the formation of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO NATO] in the 1940s, and was then adopted by urban planners in its modern civilian sense by 1970. [6], . |
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| The term came to prominence in the United States in the 1980s following the publication of ''America in Ruins''ISBN 0822305542 (Choate and Walter, 1981)[1] , which initiated a [[public]]-policy [[discussion]] of the nation’s "infrastructure [[crisis]]", purported to be caused by decades of inadequate investment and poor maintenance of public works. | | The term came to prominence in the United States in the 1980s following the publication of ''America in Ruins''ISBN 0822305542 (Choate and Walter, 1981)[1] , which initiated a [[public]]-policy [[discussion]] of the nation’s "infrastructure [[crisis]]", purported to be caused by decades of inadequate investment and poor maintenance of public works. |
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