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Infusing equity into the World Happiness Report
The 2018 Global Happiness Policy Report is out. This time, the report contains practical solutions for governments and cities interested in boosting wellbeing.
Tackling the crisis of social disconnection
Social wellbeing matters. Feelings of belonging and connection to other people and community are essential elements of human health and happiness.
Testing social trust in Mexico
What happens when you challenge hundreds of young Mexicans to reach out to strangers?
What is urban experimentalism?
I began my search for the essence of the happier city as a journalist, searching for experts among planners, mayors, psychologists and economists.
Machines for happiness
Can art and design make us kinder? Can we design more trust or altruism into the city? These are questions everyone can help answer.By Seth Geiser
A night of social experimentation at the Guggenheim
There were no book readings at the NYC launch of Happy City.
Emotions in place: Why do visitors to New York have a different physical reaction to streets than locals?
Results from a study of the psychophysiological effects of public space in New York City, Berlin and Mumbai.
Green, grey and the good city: Learning from Berlin
On a blustery, rainy July day, more than 40 people showed up to join an urbanist experiment at the BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin.