Overview

After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time. But is it better or worse for our happiness? Are subways, sidewalks, and tower dwelling an improvement on the car-dependence of sprawl? Award-winning journalist Charles Montgomery finds answers to such questions at the intersection between urban design and the emerging science of happiness, and during an exhilarating journey through some of the world's most dynamic cities. He meets the visionary mayor who introduced a sexy lipstick-red bus to ease status anxiety in Bogot�; the architect who brought the lessons of medieval Tuscan hill towns to modern-day New York City; the activist who turned Paris's urban freeways into beaches; and an army of American suburbanites who have transformed their lives by hacking the design of their streets and neighborhoods. Full of rich historical detail and new insights from psychologists and Montgomery's own urban experiments, Happy City is an essential tool for understanding and improving our own communities.

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"The book will likely make you a believer.-- ""Publishers Weekly"""

The book will likely make you a believer.-- Publishers Weekly

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Charles Montgomery is an award-winning author, urbanist, and leader of transformative experiments, research, and conversations about wellbeing in cities. Collaborating with the Guggenheim Museum, Futurewise, Laboratorio para la Ciudad, and other entities, Charles has created experiments and design methods that help participants alter their relationships with their cities and with each other. His many honors include a Citation of Merit from the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society for outstanding contribution towards the public's understanding of climate change science. Patrick Lawlor, an award-winning narrator, is also an accomplished stage actor, director, and combat choreographer. He has worked extensively off Broadway and has been an actor and stuntman in both film and television. He has been an Audie Award finalist multiple times and has garnered several AudioFile Earphones Awards, a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and many starred audio reviews from Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews.

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