Introduction

DOI: 10.1201/9781003396949-1

Few books about infrastructure have been produced in the last decade (Gómez-Ibáñez and Liu, 2022). This is surprising given the importance of infrastructure in the world today. Infrastructure is a significant part of the foundation upon which society supports its social and economic needs and is essential to providing for the basic needs of shelter, clean water, sanitation, food, and fuel. It is the physical manifestation of contracts between a government and a society over which it rules, between a government and its industrial base, and between countries in a highly competitive global environment. Infrastructure influences how we move through and between cities, communicate with each other, deliver ...

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