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Public works (or internal improvements historically in the United States) 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.
Public works is a multi-dimensional concept in economics and politics, touching on multiple arenas including: recreation (parks, beaches), aesthetics (trees, green space), economy (goods and people movement, energy), law (police and courts), and neighborhood (community centers, social services buildings). Essentially, it represents any constructed object that augments a nation's physical infrastructure.
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the Öffentlichkeit or public sphere. The concept of a public has also been defined in political science, psychology, marketing, and advertising. In public relations and communication science, it is one of the more ambiguous concepts in the field. Although it has definitions in the theory of the field that have been formulated from the early 20th century onwards, it has suffered in more recent years from being blurred, as a result of conflation of the idea of a public with the notions of audience, market segment, community, constituency, and stakeholder.
The name "public" originates with the Latin publicus (also poplicus), from populus, and in general denotes some mass population ("the people") in association with some matter of common interest. So in political science and history, a public is a population of individuals in association with civic affairs, or affairs of office or state. In social psychology, marketing, and public relations, a public has a more situational definition.John Dewey defined (Dewey 1927) a public as a group of people who, in facing a similar problem, recognize it and organize themselves to address it. Dewey's definition of a public is thus situational: people organized about a situation. Built upon this situational definition of a public is the situational theory of publics by James E. Grunig (Grunig 1983), which talks of nonpublics (who have no problem), latent publics (who have a problem), aware publics (who recognize that they have a problem), and active publics (who do something about their problem).
Works may refer to:
A Public Works Department (PWD) or Department of Public Works is a common name for a government department or ministry responsible for public works. It may refer specifically to:
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This video showcases what the Public Works Department is and what they do on a day to day basis.
This is a compilation of 3 programs focusing on the KCMO Public Works Department: 1. Signs & Signals 2. Curbside Trash Pickup 3. Curbside Recycling
This is a Complete Sewer System Animation we made for a MMSD - Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewer District's Deep Tunnel system. We created a Combined and a Sanitary Sewer Presentation(Not Shown).
Every day, the Department of Public Works provides essential services to residents and visitors in the City of Los Angeles. 'Discover Public Works' presents a window into the work and partnerships behind these core city government functions that strengthen the economy, neighborhoods, and quality of life. Whether building and maintaining our city's infrastructure, providing basic day-to-day services, improving customer service, or increasing efficiency, discover the many ways the Department of Public Works is building a prosperous, livable, well-run, and safer L.A.
The Public Works Department provides critical operational services for the City of Casa Grande through its many divisions: Airport, Engineering, Fleet Services, Facilities Maintenance, Public Works Administration, Sanitation, Streets, Wastewater and Water. Keep up to date on city news and events! Follow and subscribe! Website: http://casagrandeaz.gov Twitter: https://twitter.com/cgazgov Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cityofcg/
Public Works (Publieke Werken) VFX breakdown reel
Taking care of the Pierce County road system is Public Works & Utilities most important responsibility.
This video showcases what the Public Works Department is and what they do on a day to day basis.
This is a compilation of 3 programs focusing on the KCMO Public Works Department: 1. Signs & Signals 2. Curbside Trash Pickup 3. Curbside Recycling
This is a Complete Sewer System Animation we made for a MMSD - Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewer District's Deep Tunnel system. We created a Combined and a Sanitary Sewer Presentation(Not Shown).
Every day, the Department of Public Works provides essential services to residents and visitors in the City of Los Angeles. 'Discover Public Works' presents a window into the work and partnerships behind these core city government functions that strengthen the economy, neighborhoods, and quality of life. Whether building and maintaining our city's infrastructure, providing basic day-to-day services, improving customer service, or increasing efficiency, discover the many ways the Department of Public Works is building a prosperous, livable, well-run, and safer L.A.
The Public Works Department provides critical operational services for the City of Casa Grande through its many divisions: Airport, Engineering, Fleet Services, Facilities Maintenance, Public Works Administration, Sanitation, Streets, Wastewater and Water. Keep up to date on city news and events! Follow and subscribe! Website: http://casagrandeaz.gov Twitter: https://twitter.com/cgazgov Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cityofcg/
Public Works (Publieke Werken) VFX breakdown reel
Taking care of the Pierce County road system is Public Works & Utilities most important responsibility.
Every day, the Department of Public Works provides essential services to residents and visitors in the City of Los Angeles. 'Discover Public Works' presents a window into the work and partnerships behind these core city government functions that strengthen the economy, neighborhoods, and quality of life. Whether building and maintaining our city's infrastructure, providing basic day-to-day services, improving customer service, or increasing efficiency, discover the many ways the Department of Public Works is building a prosperous, livable, well-run, and safer L.A.
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