We're launching a campaign to bring back urban happiness.

When it comes to keeping people alive, neighbourhood design may matter much more than urban density.

Responses to the pandemic can actually make cities happier, healthier and stronger in the long run.

Nine essential ingredients for happier, healthier cities.

We’ve gathered some of the most powerful urban happiness actions in a story for the National Post. Read the full story here.

An online series to help you build happiness in your city.

There’s one sure way to avoid the negative effects of stressful, dangerous and disconnected communities: start using evidence to guide urban design. We’re helping the United Arab Emirates do just that.

The 2018 Global Happiness Policy Report is out. This time, the report contains practical solutions for governments and cities interested in boosting wellbeing.

What happens when you challenge hundreds of young Mexicans to reach out to strangers?

I began my search for the essence of the happier city as a journalist, searching for experts among planners, mayors, psychologists and economists.

Can art and design make us kinder? Can we design more trust or altruism into the city? These are questions everyone can help answer.By Seth Geiser

Study after study has confirmed that social connectedness is a prime determinant of human well-being.

Results from a study of the psychophysiological effects of public space in New York City, Berlin and Mumbai.

On a blustery, rainy July day, more than 40 people showed up to join an urbanist experiment at the BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin.