Praise for "Happy City" "Beautifully researched, Charles Montgomery's tale cleverly interweaves rigorous inquiry on urban history and the science of happiness with intimate and personal stories that humanize the vast task of understanding urban dynamics. An inspiring book that reminds us that the power to change our cities often lies in our own hands." --Maria Nicanor, Associate Curator of Architecture and Urbanism, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York ""Happy City" is its own opiate: an eye-opening, pleasurable, utterly necessary tour through the best and worst neighborhoods of our urbanized world. Charles Montgomery shows us the way to a beautiful city." --Andrew Blum, author of "Tubes" ""Happy"" City" will fundamentally change the way you see, experience, and feel the place you inhabit. It is a hopeful and optimistic vision of our urban future that uses science to argue what we always should have known: in building the good city, we won't just save our planet. We'll save ourselves."--Robert Hammond, cofounder of Friends of the High Line "A brilliant, entertaining, and vital book. Charles Montgomery deftly leads us from our misplaced focus on money, cars, and stuff to consider what makes us truly happy. Then everything changes--the way we live, work, and play in humanity's major habitat, the city." --David Suzuki, host of CBC's "The Nature of Things" and cofounder of the David Suzuki Foundation "Charles Montgomery's message is simple: If we're going to save the world, we must first be happier, and that means creating happier cities. "Happy"" City" isn't just a book about urban design written for urban professionals; it's for everyone who's ever wondered if their city could be a better place, and what they can do about it." --Jarrett Walker, author of "Human Transit" "In a word, wow. I thought I had it all figured out, but this is something I was missing. In echoing all the great economic, health, and environmental mandatesc

Charles Montgomery is an award-winning journalist and the author of "The Shark God," which won the 2005 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction under its Canadiantitle, "The Last Heathen."