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Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

by Charles Montgomery
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

Designing urban spaces for joy, connection, community.

If you've ever felt the pull of city life or questioned the soul of your neighborhood, "Happy City" might just resonate with you. Charles Montgomery dives into the heart of urban design, exploring how our cities can become catalysts for joy rather than drudgery. It's a book that combines vivid storytelling with sharp insights, perhaps changing the way you view the streets you walk every day.

  • Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing Nominee (2013)
  • Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Nominee (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

by Charles Montgomery
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ISBN: 9780385669146
Authors: Charles Montgomery
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Date of Publication: 2014-09-29
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Politics, Personal Development, Sociology
Related Topics: Psychology, Politics, Social Issues, Sociology
Goodreads rating: 4.36
(rated by 9231 readers)

Description

Happy City is not only readable but stimulating. It raises issues most of us have avoided for too long. Do we live in neighbourhoods that make us happy? That is not a silly question. Montgomery encourages us to ask it without embarrassment, and to think intelligently about the answer. More of us than ever are moving to inner cities, mixed-use suburbs, and densely constructed towns. Our surroundings have certainly changed--but is city living cheering us up, or are we as gloomy on our walks to the subway as we were on our long predawn commutes? And if that's the case, how can we turn things around? In breezy, vivid prose, Montgomery reports from such exciting and dysfunctional places as Bogotá, once a dangerous, car-obsessed city, now a bike-loving model of civic excellence; California's San Joaquin Valley in the apocalyptic aftermath of the housing crisis; and a suburb of Vancouver, where a power company gathers energy from sewage to provide its citizens with heat and hot water. Full of cutting-edge insights from behavioral economists and leading urban thinkers, Happy City offers a completely new way to examine city life, showing us how small innovations can radically improve our experiences. Practical, genial, and fiercely open-minded, Montgomery has written a brilliant book about what today's cities are getting right--and how tomorrow's cities can do even better.
 

Designing urban spaces for joy, connection, community.

If you've ever felt the pull of city life or questioned the soul of your neighborhood, "Happy City" might just resonate with you. Charles Montgomery dives into the heart of urban design, exploring how our cities can become catalysts for joy rather than drudgery. It's a book that combines vivid storytelling with sharp insights, perhaps changing the way you view the streets you walk every day.

  • Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing Nominee (2013)
  • Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Nominee (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.