Charles Montgomery | |
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Born | 1968 (age 48–49) North Vancouver, British Columbia |
Occupation | writer, photojournalist, urbanist |
Nationality | Canadian |
Period | 2000s-present |
Notable works | The Last Heathen, Happy City |
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Charles Montgomery (born 1968 in North Vancouver, British Columbia) is an award-winning Canadian writer and urbanist. Primarily known for his books The Last Heathen (2004) and Happy City (2013), Montgomery has advised and lectured planners, students, and decision-makers across Canada, the USA and England. Using insights from psychology, behavioral economics, architecture and city planning, Montgomery has worked with the BMW Guggenheim Lab and the Museum of Vancouver to social experiments that help citizens transform their relationships with each other and their cities.
Montgomery graduated from the University of Victoria in 1991 with a degree in geography.
Montgomery's writing has appeared in magazines and newspapers including dwell Magazine, Outside Magazine, Canadian Geographic, enRoute magazine, the National Post, The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, Readers Digest and The South China Morning Post. His magazine writing has won four Western Canada Magazine Awards, a 2004 silver National Magazine award and the 2003 American Society of Travel Writers' Lowell Thomas Silver Award for best North American travel story. In 2007 the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society awarded him a Citation of Merit for his outstanding contribution towards public awareness of climate change science.