TY  - BOOK
AU  - Montgomery,Charles
TI  - Happy City: transforming our lives through urban design. 
SN  - 9780374168230 
AV  - HT166 M5865 2014
U1  - 307.1/216 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - City planning
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Local
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Psychology
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
KW  - Environmental psychology
KW  - City dwellers
KW  - Urban beautification
N1  - Include bibliography; 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 --

N2  - "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"--
ER  -