Imagine Kalamazoo reads: Happy City, discussion at jerico
Join us for Imagine Kalamazoo Reads! IK Reads is a community book read and discussion. Book clubs, community groups, and residents from all around the city can come together to read common material, engage with new ideas, and have meaningful conversations about what’s happening in Kalamazoo.
Imagine Kalamazoo Reads is a part of Imagine Kalamazoo 2035 (IK2035): the process of creating and implementing a Master Plan for Kalamazoo, and envisioning a more prosperous future for our city. IK2035 aims to engage an even greater number of our fellow residents, businesses, and visitors than we did eight years ago, with IK2025. These voices will again shape the City’s Strategic Plan and Master Plan documents that lay out the City’s work plan for the next ten years. One new path for these voices is with Imagine Kalamazoo Reads!
The inaugural IK Reads book is Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery. Happy City poses an interesting and fundamental question: how do our lives in the city – who we see, where we live, and how we get places – shape our sense of happiness?. We think that Happy City is a great place to begin our IK2035 journey, and a great tool to help reimagine what Kalamazoo can be.
Where To Get the Book
The book Happy City is available for purchase at a discounted price at This is a Bookstore, both in person and online (use discount code KALAMAZOO).You can also read an online version of the book, or get it from the Kalamazoo Public Library as as an eBook or audio book via Hoopla. You can watch the author's TED Talk online, too.
Imagine Kalamazoo 2035 (IK2035) is all about engagement: engagement with citizens, community groups, businesses, developers, investors, philanthropists, government and YOU. We’re imagining a vision for Kalamazoo’s future – discussing it, planning it, designing it, and acting on it.
FIND US:
The Jerico Workshop Room is located in the North Building, next to Fiddle Leaf Cafe. Park in front of the cafe, then walk around the back of the building and enter the double grey doors.
JERICO
1501 FULFORD ST
KALAMAZOO, MI 49001