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Building bridges at a distance

Renewing Happy City’s commitments to anti-racism

The pandemic is changing the way we use city spaces — for good

Alone, together

Join us to support our neighbours in the Downtown Eastside

We can’t solve affordability while ignoring wellbeing

Podcast: Paty Rios on Women-Led Cities

Why math and rigid rules aren’t enough to build great cities

Happy City wellbeing framework: equity

Can we design more trusting public spaces?

Cities for women, by women

Walking is economic growth

What makes a beautiful place?

A Recipe for Urban Happiness

Historic El Mirador building faces the wrecking ball: thoughts on designing for sociability

Escalator Wars: The Walkers Vs. the Standers

Nine ways we can use the power of cities to boost happiness

Are you a happy city hero?

Architecture helped me heal. So I helped create a new guide to fight loneliness

How do you help an entire nation build happier communities?

Happy City joins Vancouver’s new social innovation community

Infusing equity into the World Happiness Report

Will Vancouver’s ambitious new housing strategy make the city healthier and happier?

Designed for Wellbeing – Paddington Central

Happy City allies donate $1,000 to help earthquake survivors in Mexico

Earthquake-ravaged cities in Mexico need our help — here’s how

Press release: Public Space Improvements Can Boost Trust Among Strangers

Tackling the crisis of social disconnection

An ode to women in the happy city movement

Happy City released in Taiwan

Cairo transport advocates create a grassroots transit map

The Happy City Experiment with Q Ideas

Charles talks towers and sociability on the TV show 26 Minutes

Are Polish cities getting happier?

Happy City interview in Vienna

What is the relationship between science, art and urban design?

Walking Towards a Happy City

The Urbanist Pope

Happy Hours with Happy Cities: July 9 at the MOV

How can we make Vancouver happier?

Are some streets kinder than others? A social test in Seattle

Happy City workshop for municipal leaders: join us March 20

Fixing Our Cities: A CBC National Feature

Happy City workshop with the World Health Organization

Testing social trust in Mexico

TIME Magazine Happy City survey launches

Building Happiness

What is urban experimentalism?

Why cities need streets activists now

Talking Happy City with Streetfilms

Choosing the Happy City

Mysteries of the empathic city

Machines for Happiness

Hug a stranger, change your city: a social trust photo album

Upcycled Urbanism: street hacking with MOV

On the sunny side of the street

Three stories, one message: we can all use design for happiness

A Night of Social Experimentation At the Guggenheim

Secrets of the world’s happiest cities: excerpt – Guardian UK

Happy City Machine: Vancouver book launch + party + design lab

Happy City launching in NYC with lab/experiment/party at the Guggenheim

Emotions in place: why do visitors to New York have a different physical reaction to streets than locals?

Trust: experimenting with the invisible ingredient for thriving cities

Vancouver plans for social connections

Airport altruism: chasing happiness on the way to somewhere else

Green, Grey and the Good City: learning from Berlin

Are apartment residents more lonely and less trusting? @VancouverFdn study says yes.

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