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Recent stories about Charles and his work

Realtopia, Episode 16

Happy Cities, Trust & the Design of Belonging

Second Wave Media

Joyful streets, real world struggles

El País

The fair city, the green city and the happy city are the same place

CBC Television

Better urban design could add years to our lives

The Guardian

The secrets of the world’s happiest cities

The Globe and Mail

Cohousing converts wait for their keys

The New York Times

Greener pastures

WIRED

The psychological tricks designers use to make cities happier places

The Hindu

Happy cities need to make spaces for people, not cars

CBC

How to make cities happier, healthier and better equipped to fight climate change

Pensacola News Journal

How city design affects people’s happiness, and how happy people affect a city’s success

ABC Radio Perth

Canadian ‘Happy City’ urbanist Charles Montgomery was asked how to make Perth a happier city and his response was very amusing

Monocle Radio

Happiness and cities: dispatch from the Academy of Urbanism

CBC

Should public golf courses be converted to parks and affordable housing?

Mr. Money Mustache

The happy city and our $20 trillion opportunity

Architecture Academy

Interview on architecture and the science of happiness

Stadsleven

Happy cities and the Netherlands

El País

The Haiku That Reshaped a New York Street

La Vanguardia

We Need To Empower Local People To Reshape Their Communities

Crónica

How Power Gets Expressed Through City Design

El Mundo

Urban Planner Finds Formula for Happy Cities: Challenges American Single-Family Home Dream

ABC Antropía

Can City Design Make Us Happier?

El Español

Charles Montgomery Champions Barcelona’s Transformation

El País USA Edition

Charles Montgomery, urbanist: ‘The best thing against climate change is to live close together, to share walls’

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