EAN: 9780374534882

HAPPY CITY - CHARLES MONTGOMERY KARTONIERT (TB)

A globe-trotting  eye-opening exploration of how cities can-and do-make us happier people  
Charles Montgomery's Happy City is revolutionizing the way we think about urban life.  After
decades of unchecked sprawl  more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban
living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time.
But is it better or worse for our happiness? Are subways  sidewalks  and condo towers an
improvement on the car dependence of the suburbs?  The award-winning journalist Charles
Montgomery finds answers to such questions at the intersection between urban design and the
emerging science of happiness  during an exhilarating journey through some of the world's most
dynamic cities. He meets the visionary mayor who introduced a "sexy" bus to ease status anxiety
in Bogotá  the architect who brought the lessons of medieval Tuscan hill towns to modern-day
New York City  the activist who turned Paris's urban freeways into beaches  and an army of
American suburbanites who have hacked the design of their own streets and neighborhoods.  Rich
with new insights from psychology  neuroscience  and Montgomery's own urban experiments  Happy
City reveals how cities can shape our thoughts as well as our behavior. The message is
ultimately as surprising as it is hopeful: by retrofitting cities and our own lives for
happiness  we can tackle the urgent challenges of our age. The happy city can save the
world-and we can all help build it.

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