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Happy City

Oct 6, 2020
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Jane and Charles Montgomery discuss what it might take to make a city – and its residents – happy.

Jane interviewed Charles Montgomery, urban planner and award-winning author, for Block Magazine. His acclaimed book, Happy City, Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design, examines the intersection between urban design and the emerging science of happiness.

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