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We build the objects and order the spaces around us – sidewalks, roads, sewers, water lines, buildings, mobile phones, and data lines – to serve our needs. This infrastructure, in turn, profoundly shapes us as individuals and as societies. In fact, it is our social infrastructure, the patterns of our relationships with each other as individuals and as groups, that gives rise to our physical infrastructure. Municipal leaders are well aware of the Canadian infrastructure