Book

Happy city: transforming our lives through urban design

by  Charles Montgomery

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

Table Of 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

Subject

Psychological aspects / Psychology / City planning / Urban beautification / City dwellers / Environmental psychology

Details

Published New York : Farrar, Straus and Girox, 2013
Language English
Material 358 p.
ISBN 9780374534882
Location
TCDC Bangkok - General Collection

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