Vancouver, like so many cities, is experiencing a painful housing crisis. The city is the least affordable in North America.

How have recent design improvements to the external environment at Paddington Central had an impact on the wellbeing of workers, residents and visitors?

A new study has found that a rainbow crosswalk painted by the City of Vancouver is linked to greater trust among strangers.

Social wellbeing matters. Feelings of belonging and connection to other people and community are essential elements of human health and happiness.

Women’s Day got us thinking about many of the leaders who have inspired our healthy, happy city movement.

How can you use public transit if you don't even know where the buses run and what routes they take?

Omar Dominguez, Happy City's Director of Operations and Sustainability, shared our ideas on the Happy City experiment in an engaging talk at Regent College.

This summer Omar Dominguez explored this question while entertaining and inspiring an enthusiastic audience in Vancouver’s happy Commercial Drive neighbourhood.

What happens when you challenge hundreds of young Mexicans to reach out to strangers?

I began my search for the essence of the happier city as a journalist, searching for experts among planners, mayors, psychologists and economists.

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

Study after study has confirmed that social connectedness is a prime determinant of human well-being.

There were no book readings at the NYC launch of Happy City. 

Results from a study of the psychophysiological effects of public space in New York City, Berlin and Mumbai.

On a blustery, rainy July day, more than 40 people showed up to join an urbanist experiment at the BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin.