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Happy city : transforming our lives through urban design / Charles Montgomery.
Fine Arts Library HT166 .M5865 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Montgomery, Charles, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--Psychological aspects.
- City planning.
- Urban beautification--Psychological aspects.
- Urban beautification.
- City dwellers--Psychology.
- City dwellers.
- Environmental psychology.
- Psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
- Summary:
- "A journalist travels the world and investigates current socioeconomic theories of happiness to discover why most modern cities are designed to make us miserable, what we can do to change this, and why we have more to learn from poor cities than from prosperous ones"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 The Mayor of Happy 3
- 2 The City Has Always Been a Happiness Project 17
- 3 The (Broken) Social Scene 44
- 4 How We Got Here 63
- 5 Getting It Wrong 78
- 6 How to Be Closer 106
- 7 Convivialities 146
- 8 Mobilicities I: How Moving Feels, and Why It Does Not Feel Better 176
- 9 Mobilicities II: Freedom 196
- 10 Who Is the City For? 227
- 11 Everything Is Connected to Everything Else 251
- 12 Retrofitting Sprawl 271
- 13 Save Your City, Save Yourself 295.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780374168230
- 0374168237
- OCLC:
- 812252801
- Online:
- Cover image
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