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Cities have power to influence human well-being, says Happy City author

Charles Montgomery’s Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design is one of five books shortlisted for this year’s prestigious Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.

Charles Montgomery, author of Happy City: Transforming Our Lives through Urban Design, which is one of five books shortlisted for this year’s prestigious Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, says he first got interested in the link between good urban planning and happiness...

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