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Book

Happy city : transforming our lives through urban design

Call Number

  • 307.1216 M7872 2014 (CEN, EAS, WSQ)

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Edition

First paperback edition.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.

Physical Description

358 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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"--

Notes

"Published in 2013 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux"--Title page verso.

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.

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