Public Infrastructure Improvement Project
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A Public Infrastructure Improvement Project is a public infrastructure project that is financed and constructed by a government unit.
- AKA: Public Works, Internal Improvement.
- Context:
- It can (often) be delivered by a Public Works Department.
- Example(s):
- A transport infrastructure improvement project such as the construction roads, airports and railroads.
- A public service improvement project such as the construction of water supply lines, sewage and electrical grid.
- A public building improvement project such as schools, hospitals, community centers.
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- A Home Improvement project.
- A Capital Improvement project.
- See: Special Assessment, Real Property, Public Authority, Property Tax, Public Infrastructure, Contingencies Fund, Infrastructure.
References
2016
- (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_works
- Public works (or internal improvements historically in the United States)[1][2][3] are a broad category of infrastructure projects, financed and constructed by the government, for recreational, employment, and health and safety uses in the greater community. They include public buildings (municipal buildings, schools, hospitals), transport infrastructure (roads, railroads, bridges, pipelines, canals, ports, airports), public spaces (public squares, parks, beaches), public services (water supply, sewage, electrical grid, dams), and other, usually long-term, physical assets and facilities. Though often interchangeable with public infrastructure and public capital, public works does not necessarily carry an economic component, thereby being a broader term.
- ↑ Carter Goodrich, Government Promotion of American Canals and Railroads, 1800-1890 (Greenwood Press, 1960])
- ↑ Stephen Minicucci, Internal Improvements and the Union, 1790–1860, Studies in American Political Development (2004), 18:2:160-185 Cambridge University Press. Template:Doi.
- ↑ John Lauritz Larson, Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States, University of North Carolina Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-8078-4911-8.