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

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: London : Penguin Books, 2015Description: 400 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text, still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780141047546
  • 0141047542
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.1216 M768 2015 23
Other classification:
  • Odg
Contents:
1. The mayor of happy -- 2. The city has always been a happiness project -- 3. The (broken) social scene -- 4. How we got here -- 5. Getting it wrong -- 6. How to be closer -- 7. Convivialities -- 8. Mobilicities I -- 9. Mobilicities II -- 10. Who is the city for? -- 11. Everything is connected to everything else -- 12. Retrofitting sprawl -- 13. Save your city, save yourself -- Epilogue: The beginning.
Summary: "What really makes a good place to live? Journeying around the world from Copenhagen to Bogot�, Charles Montgomery shows that living in densely populated cities can actually make us healthier, saner and happier people. Happy City will change the way you feel about urban life."--Back cover.
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English Book TUWAIQ 307.1216 M768 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 1000000029183

Originally published: 2013.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. The mayor of happy -- 2. The city has always been a happiness project -- 3. The (broken) social scene -- 4. How we got here -- 5. Getting it wrong -- 6. How to be closer -- 7. Convivialities -- 8. Mobilicities I -- 9. Mobilicities II -- 10. Who is the city for? -- 11. Everything is connected to everything else -- 12. Retrofitting sprawl -- 13. Save your city, save yourself -- Epilogue: The beginning.

"What really makes a good place to live? Journeying around the world from Copenhagen to Bogot�, Charles Montgomery shows that living in densely populated cities can actually make us healthier, saner and happier people. Happy City will change the way you feel about urban life."--Back cover.

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