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The dozen panel discussions recorded in December 2024 on Day One of CUI’s State of Canada’s Cities Summit revolved around urban infrastructure in all its modern permutations, and how we need to build it better, faster and more sustainably. However, that doesn’t preclude its ability to also add beauty and contribute to our collective well-being.…

The Canadian Urban Institute’s mobile podcast studio at the State of Canada’s Cities Summit in Ottawa last December offered CUI staff the opportunity to chat with some of the leading voices attending the event.

More forward-thinking discussions on infrastructure from CUI’s State of Canada’s Cities Summit, these the first of several recorded by our mobile podcast studio.

As host Mary Rowe stated early in this series, once you understand what infrastructure is, you can’t help but see it everywhere around you.

Where do you start two days of conversation about the issues around infrastructure in all its modern urban permutations? For host Mary Rowe and her team at the Canadian Urban Institute, the answer was obvious – talk first about the mental health crisis affecting most every community.