Happy City
transforming our lives through urban design
Montgomery, Charles
1968-
creator
text
bibliography
nyu
2013
First paperback edition
monographic
eng
355 p. 24 cm ill. ;
"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"--
Contents:
1. Mayor of Happy 3 --
2. The City Has Always Been a Happiness Project 17
3. The Broken Social Scene 44 --
4. How W Got Here 63 --
5. Getting It Wrong 78 --
6. How to Be Closer 106 --
7. Convivialities 146 --
8. Mobilicities I: How Moving Fells, and Why It Does Not Feel Better 176 --
9. Mobilities 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 --
Epilogue: The Beginning 315 --
Notes 323 --
Acknowledgments 327 --
Charles Montgomery.
Include bibliography.
City planning
Psychological aspects
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional
Psychology
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
Environmental psychology
City dwellers
Psychology
Urban beautification
Psychological aspects
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