Tapestry

Believing in the City

Stories of how cities shape our spirits.
(AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) (The Associated Press)

Charles Montgomery, author of Happy Cities: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design, talks about how an urban environment can make or break a human spirit. Sara Miles, author of City of God: Faith in the Streets had a different kind of urban transformation. One day, she landed on a church's downtown doorstep and had her own conversion experience. Finally, listen as Tapestry producer Diane Eros and Reverend Sherman Hesselgrave make their way through the streets of downtown Toronto, offering ashes to the devout - and the curious on Ash Wednesday.