Charles Montgomery is a journalist and urban experimentalist from Vancouver, Canada. His writings on urban planning, psychology, culture, and history have appeared in magazines and journals on three continents. He is the author of one previous book, and was an original member of the BMW Guggenheim Lab.
Excellent . . . Montgomery believes in the importance of smart town
planning and Happy City is a compendium of its major ideas . . .
It's a castigating economic, social, moral and environmental
argument for planning urban spaces around the thing they affect the
most: people -- Will Dean * Independent *
A valuable book ... [it says] forcefully what can't be said too
much. It is surely better, most of the time, for most people, to
spend as little time as possible in cars and to increase the
possibilities of encountering other people and new experiences --
Rowan Moore * Observer *
Admirable ... past writers on this subject have mainly praised
existing communities they find conducive to human well-being.
Montgomery is all about creating new ones ... not only readable but
stimulating. It raises issues most of us have avoided for too long
-- Alan Ehrenhalt * New York Times *
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