Infrastructure is a set of fundamental facilities and systems that support sustainable functions of households and cities.
There are four major types of infrastructure:
- Blue infrastructure refers to water elements, like rivers, canals, ponds, wetlands, floodplains, water treatment facilities. This term is used in urban planning and land-use planning.
- Green infrastructure mimics Nature and refers to trees, lawns, hedgerows, parks, fields, forests. This term is used for urban planning and land-use planning.
- Gray infrastructure refers to structures such as dams, seawalls, roads, pipes or water treatment plants. Adapting to the escalating impacts of climate breakdown — particularly for coastlines facing sea-level rise and stronger storms — requires changing our infrastructure.
- Social infrastructure are foundational services and structures that support the quality of life of a nation, region, city or neighborhood. This includes any infrastructure that goes beyond basic economic functions to make a community an appealing place to live.
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