Happy City
North American hardcover edition (2013)
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| Author | Charles Montgomery |
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| Country | United States, Canada, UK |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Urban planning, Nonfiction |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Random House, Penguin Books |
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Publication date
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2013 |
| Media type | Print & Digital |
| Pages | 359 pp (first edition) |
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Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design is a 2013 book written by the Canadian author Charles Montgomery. Gathering insights from the disciplines of psychology, neuroscience, urban planning and Montgomery’s own social experiments, the book makes the case that the manner in which we build our cities alters the way in which we feel, think, and behave as individuals and as a society. Montgomery argues that the happy city, the green city, and the low-carbon city are the same place, and we can all help build it.
The book was a shortlisted nominee for the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
The book contains 13 chapters and an epilogue:
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