A Recipe for Urban Happiness

Nine essential ingredients for happier, healthier cities

What makes a beautiful place?

An evidence-based approach to designing for diverse tastes and preferences

Walking is economic growth

You know walking is good for your physical health, and even your emotional wellbeing. But did you know it’s…

Architecture helped me heal. So I helped create a new guide to fight loneliness

Can we design more trusting public spaces?

Our research found small design changes to public space can have big impacts on…

Are you a happy city hero?

An online series to help you build happiness in your city

How do you help an entire nation build happier communities?

There’s one sure way to avoid the negative…

Happy City wellbeing framework: equity

Designing cities for — and with — marginalized residents makes them work better for everyone.

We can’t solve affordability while ignoring wellbeing

Demand for great communities is pushing up…

Why math and rigid rules aren’t enough to build great cities