How to measure success of public space transformations.

To strengthen local economies, create places that people want to spend time in.

Indigenous community members are shaping placemaking and urban design projects to share their histories of place and create stronger communities.

Community gardens, food co-ops, bike programs, and more are tackling climate resilience at the neighbourhood scale.

How city staff, community organizations, and placemakers can create better places for young people.

Happy Cities’ award-winning Public Life Study can help you measure the impact of public space transformations on community connections, trust, and inclusion.

How shared spaces can support physical and mental health for people of all ages.

To change peoples’ minds, we have to make an effort first to listen.

A Q&A with the project team behind Our Urban Village on the benefits and challenges of cohousing, including financial commitments, development approvals, expanding impact, and learning to live in community.

Three ways to ensure that new development contributes to happier, healthier, more inclusive cities.

To make every street wonderful, add it to people’s job descriptions.

Cohousing lite is a promising solution to our loneliness and housing crises. Why aren’t we building more of it?

When people take an active role in shaping their community, they build social connections and trust—with one another, and with local government.

Cohousing communities reveal the benefits of supportive, multigenerational neighbours—showing that apartment living doesn’t have to be lonely or isolating.

Three ways to design multi-unit housing for social connection, happiness, and health.

Our new study says no.

It's been 10 years since the publication of the book Happy City, by Charles Montgomery. Our readers share how the book influenced their career and life journeys.

The power of benches and seating to connect strangers.