Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
- ISBN-10
- 0374168237
- ISBN-13
- 9780374168230
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 358
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-11-12
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Charles Montgomery
Description
"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"--
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