“Happy City is not only readable but stimulating. It raises issues most of us have avoided for too long. Do we live in neighborhoods that make us happy? That is not a silly question. Montgomery encourages us to ask it without embarrassment, and to think intelligently about the answer.” —The New York Times

“Montgomery has done a service by writing an essential guidebook to the brightest manifestations of urban felicity; it’s one that belongs on every city-dweller’s bookshelf.” —National Post

“Exposure to [Happy City] is akin to a seminar headed by an enthused and eclectic thinker whose desire to apply abstract research findings to real-world problems is never in doubt.” —Vancouver Sun

“Montgomery should be praised for both the breadth of his research as well the virtues of most everything he argues.”—The Globe and Mail

“What makes Happy City such an instructive book is that it first describes the pathologies distressing big cities, globally, and then outlines the solutions that can offer a cure.” —Toronto Star

“A wonderful book. . . . Very thought provoking and inspiring.” —Matt Galloway on CBC’s Metro Morning

“A brilliant, entertaining and vital book. Montgomery deftly leads us from our misplaced focus on money, cars and stuff to consider what makes us truly happy. Then everything changes—the way we live, work and play in humanity’s major habitat, the city.” —David Suzuki