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Charles Montgomery is an urbanist and the award-winning author of Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design. Montgomery works with cities, organizations and citizens around the world to improve human wellbeing. His collaborators include the World Health Organization, the Guggenheim Museum, and local governments in Canada, the United States, Mexico, New Zealand, the UAE and Poland. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.

Books by Charles Montgomery

The Trust Experiments

An acclaimed urbanist and social scientist argues that our societies are designed to push us apart—and can be redesigned to bring us together again

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Happy City

What really makes a good place to live? Journeying around the world from Copenhagen to Bogotá, Charles Montgomery shows that living in densely-populated cities can actually make us healthier, saner and happier people. Happy City will change the way you think about urban life. 

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