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Happy City

Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

Charles Montgomery

Happy City
Happy City

Happy City

Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

Charles Montgomery

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Description

Tells the story of how the solutions to this century's problems lie in unlocking the secrets to great city living. Drawing on the lessons from their stories, from brain science, and from the realm of urban experimentation, this book offers solutions we can all use to improve our lives and shows that simple changes can make all the difference.

Excellent . . . Montgomery believes in the importance of smart town planning and Happy City is a compendium of its major ideas . . . It's a castigating economic, social, moral and environmental argument for planning urban spaces around the thing they affect the most: people

A valuable book ... [it says] forcefully what can't be said too much. It is surely better, most of the time, for most people, to spend as little time as possible in cars and to increase the possibilities of encountering other people and new experiences

Admirable ... past writers on this subject have mainly praised existing communities they find conducive to human well-being. Montgomery is all about creating new ones ... not only readable but stimulating. It raises issues most of us have avoided for too long

Charles Montgomery is a journalist and urban experimentalist from Vancouver, Canada. His writings on urban planning, psychology, culture, and history have appeared in magazines and journals on three continents. He is the author of one previous book, and was an original member of the BMW Guggenheim Lab.

Specifications

  • Publisher
    Penguin Books Ltd
  • Pub date
    Feb 2015
  • Pages
    400
  • Theme
    Urban communities
  • Dimensions
    198 x 129 x 23 mm
  • Weight
    292 gram
  • EAN
    9780141047546
  • Paperback
    Paperback
  • Language
    English

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