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Hilary Weston Prize for NonFiction Series: 7 Things You Need to Know About Charles Montgomery's Happy City
Submitted by Grace on October 10, 2014 - 9:23am
Non-fiction has a special place in our reading landscape, with the power to educate, influence and improve, all while entertaining us. The Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction honours those achievements, so we're hosting a new series with the Writers' Trust celebrating non-fiction: The Hilary Weston Prize Dinner-party Digestible: 7 Things You Need to Know, featuring seven fascinating facts about and related to each title nominated for this year's award. Consider this an appetizer to the book's full feast, whetting your appetite for great reading. The seven points on today's list come from Charles Montgomery's timely and fascinating Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Doubleday Canada). Walking through any city, it is immediately apparent that things like public transportation, parking, green spaces and access to natural light have intense emotional and psychological impact on our lives. The jury praised Happy City saying: "Refitting cities for sustainability, and for a new, necessary kind of ‘happiness,’ may sound utopian, but Charles Montgomery builds a vision and argument out of real people, real situations, real solutions... [Happy City is] witty, erudite, and intrepid." 7 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT… Charles Montgomery's Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
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