Happy city : transforming our lives through urban design /

"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"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Montgomery, Charles, 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Edition:First edition.
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Online Access:Cover image
Description
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"--
Physical Description:358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780374168230 (hardback)
0374168237 (hardback)
0385669127 (Cloth)
9780385669122 (Cloth)
1846143209 (Paper)
9781846143205 (Paper)