TY  - BOOK
AU  - Montgomery,Charles
TI  - Happy city: transforming our lives through urban design 
SN  - 0374168237
AV  - HT166 .M5865 2013
U1  - 307.1216 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - City planning
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Urban beautification
KW  - City dwellers
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Environmental psychology
KW  - Urban health
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - Urban renewal
KW  - Environmental health
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; The mayor of Happy --; The city has always been a happiness project --; The (broken) social scene --; How we got here --; Getting it wrong --; How to be closer --; Convivialities --; Mobilicities I: how moving feels, and why it does not feel better --; Mobilicities II: freedom --; Who is the city for? --; Everything is connected to everything else --; Retrofitting sprawl --; Save your city, save yourself --; Epilogue: the beginning
N2  - "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"--
ER  -