Transportation & Infrastructure
📋 What it is
Infrastructure is the shared backbone — roads, transit, water, power, internet — that everything else in a city relies on.
🗣️ Coach says
Infrastructure is the stuff you only notice when it breaks. Pipes, cables, rails, roads — invisible until the water stops or the train doesn’t come. Great cities invest in this hidden backbone before it fails, not after.
🧠 Memory hook
Infrastructure = the hidden backbone. Fix it before it breaks.
😂 Giggle
What do you call a city with no zoning laws?
A free-for-all — literally!
😲 Whoa!
The London Underground opened in 1863 — the world’s first underground railway, built when trains still ran on steam.
✅ Quick check: What is “infrastructure,” and why is it called a city’s backbone?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
The shared systems (roads, transit, water, power, internet) everything else depends on — like a backbone holds up the whole body.
Grasping infrastructure explains why maintenance and investment matter.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Name one piece of infrastructure you used today that you normally never think about.