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Students for safer streets: Learning from the new generation of activists
People who use city spaces are the experts on how those spaces succeed or fail them.
Designing happy cities with Mitchell Reardon
Can our cities be designed to make us happier? Can street design foster trust—or even romance?
Podcast: Paty Rios on Women-Led Cities
What does it mean to design a gender-inclusive city? To start, it means including people of diverse genders and experiences at decision-making tables.
The psychological tricks designers use to make cities happier places
From rainbow crosswalks to communal herb gardens, urban planners and architects are borrowing from neuroscience to build environments that people want to work and live in
Historic El Mirador building faces the wrecking ball: Thoughts on designing for sociability
In this article from the Edmonton Journal, Paty Rios offers advice on how developers and architects can design multi-unit buildings to foster sociability.
Nine ways we can use the power of cities to boost happiness
We’ve gathered some of the most powerful urban happiness actions in a story for the National Post. Read the full story here.