Projects

Happy City

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.

Read the pdf here.

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Other Recent Projects

The Dept supported the Church to explore options for development planning through facilitated conversation. The United Church of...

Mississauga Futures – United Church

Mia reviews Cartographies of Place: Navigating the Urban, edited by Michael Darroch and Janine Marchessault. In 2015, Mia reviewed...

Cartographies of Place – Book Review

WalkShops with Mall staff, local residents and stakeholders helped guide a new design for the Yorkdale Mall. In 2017, the Dept designed...

Yorkdale WalkShop

Mia’s research and writing has focused on making space for difference in the city – be it space for at-risk women, marginalized...