My neighbour, Roger, was loitering in the foyer of St. James Square, a community hall on Vancouver’s bucolic West Side, when he spotted a flyer on the wall that kind of ruined his day.
A few years ago, a few dozen Vancouverites came together to tackle some of Vancouver’s greatest challenges. We wanted to create a village for ourselves, a place that would nurture friendships while shrinking our cost of living — and our greenhouse gas emissions.
Architects and urban designers have long claimed the power to influence human well-being through form and aesthetics. None were so confident as the modernists, whose
Of course, we are all free to behave as we wish as we wander across the stage of any city. We can choose to be
American cities are experiencing a crisis of social disconnection, and urban design is part of the problem. On the one hand, people who live in
In some ways, their behavior was predicted by decades of sociology similar to Baum’s campus studies. The front doors of the town houses all led
Neuroscientists have found that environmental cues trigger immediate responses in the human brain even before we are aware of them. As you move into a
Most of us agree that development that provides employment and tax revenue is good for cities. Some even argue that the need for jobs outweighs
When we talk about cities, we usually end up talking about how various places look, and perhaps how it feels to be there. But to
A few years ago a loose-knit group of economists and psychologists coalesced around the same goal: to find the recipe for human happiness. The conclusion
When a Canadian writer goes to work in a taqueria in Mexico City, he discovers the passion of the proprietor, the foundation of the cuisine,
Seven years after the Taliban’s ouster, Kabul was supposed to be a bastion of stability, from which peace and prosperity would ripple across Afghanistan. But
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