Happy city : transforming our lives through urban design / Charles Montgomery.
"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"--
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2013.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 358 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0374168237 9780374168230 0385669127 9780385669122 1846143209 9781846143205 0374534888 9780374534882 |