HAPPY CITY
Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Charles Montgomery
ISBN: | 9780141047546 |
Publisher: | Penguin Books |
Published: | 5 February, 2015 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
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HAPPY CITY
Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Charles Montgomery
What really makes a good place to live? Journeying around the world from Copenhagen to Bogotá, Charles Montgomery shows that living in densely-populated cities can actually make us healthier, saner and happier people.Happy Citywill change the way you think about urban life. 'Eye-opening, pleasurable, utterly necessary.' Andrew Blum, author ofTubes 'Admirable, readable, stimulating. It raises issues most of us have avoided for too long.' Alan Ehrenhalt, The New York Times 'Excellent . . . a castigating argument for planning urban spaces around the thing they effect the most: people.' Will Dean,Independent 'Rare wit and erudition about the psychology of urban life. A wake-up call.' Nicholas Humphrey, author ofA History of the Mind
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