Charles Montgomery creates transformative conversations about cities, science and human well-being. Charles is an award-winning author. He helps planners, city builders and regular people find new ways to see and change the world around them. He and his team also create participatory programs where people use their own cities as laboratories. If you are curious about cities and well-being, check out the Happy City Lab. Walking, bikes, cars and transit.

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Knitting, books and movies, etc. Thursday, December 04, 2014. Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. I finished book 52 of my book-a-week-in-2014 reading challenge. The last was Me Before You by JoJo Moyes. A tear-jerker of a novel. It was one of 15 books to get a five-star rating from me this year.

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Thursday, July 2, 2015. With the odd exception, I will be taking a break from this blog for the summer. Have a safe, happy and beautiful summer! Friends of the Grove. Saturday, May 9, 2015. The Community is the Expert.

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7 steps to a Smart City. Cities either balance or create tension between human interaction and transport; how will self-driving cars change that equation? With thanks and apologies to Tim Stonor. A number of town .

Tim Louis, Municipal Activist and COPE Co-Chair. Recent media coverage has shone a light on the story. About the mother of a young infant who was told by the driver of the taxi she had just boarded along with her husband, who uses a wheelchair, that it would take too much time to buckle the baby into the car seat. He advised her to just hold on to the infant instead. Luckily, I was firmly secured and there were no negative consequences.