Hazel Borys

In the three steps of placemaking, crafting a meaningful vision is the first and most straightforward, yet it's the most under-leveraged. Continuing his series on "Municipal Placemaking Mistakes," Nathan Norris describes how to get it right.

Happiness and health are generated or depleted by the way our neighbourhoods, towns, cities, and rural landscapes are developed. Creative placemaking adds to walkable urbanism by sealing the deal on physical, mental, and social well-being.

Scott Bernstein joins in the Happiness Index conversation, starting with references to the Anatomy of Melancholy.

Now can you qualify, quantify, and index it? Hazel Borys would like you to do so, and gives this data review to help you get started.

Howard Blackson walks through the planning layers of San Diego for a history lesson as well as a look to the Next Urbanism.