Happy city : transforming our lives through urban design / Charles Montgomery.

  • Montgomery, Charles, 1968-
Date:
[2013]
  • Books

About this work

Description

"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.

Publication/Creation

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2013]

Physical description

358 pages ; 24 cm

Contributors

Edition

First edition.

Contents

The mayor of Happy -- The city has always been a happiness project -- The (broken) social scene -- How we got here -- Getting it wrong -- How to be closer -- Convivialities -- Mobilicities I: how moving feels, and why it does not feel better -- Mobilicities II: freedom -- Who is the city for? -- Everything is connected to everything else -- Retrofitting sprawl -- Save your city, save yourself -- Epilogue: the beginning.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    WA380 2013M78h
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780374168230
  • 0374168237
  • 0385669127
  • 9780385669122
  • 1846143209
  • 9781846143205