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.

Other Recent Projects

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

Cartographies of Place – Book Review

Jane co-wrote this revised edition of the bestselling compendium of curious information. Before there was Buzzfeed, there was the Book of...

The Book of Lists – 2017 Edition

The Dept contributed to the Toronto's Heritage Planning Services' Strategic Roadmap through interviews, planning recommendations and an...

City of Toronto Heritage Roadmap

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