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Happy city : transforming our lives through urban design
- Title
- Happy city : transforming our lives through urban design / Charles Montgomery.
- Author
- Montgomery, Charles, 1968-
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 15-5355 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 358 pages; 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"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-5355
- ISBN
- 9780374168230 (hardback)
- 0374168237 (hardback)
- 0385669127 (Cloth)
- 9780385669122 (Cloth)
- 1846143209 (Paper)
- 9781846143205 (Paper)
- LCCN
- 2013022587
- OCLC
- 812252801
- Author
- Montgomery, Charles, 1968- author.
- Title
- Happy city : transforming our lives through urban design / Charles Montgomery.
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-5355