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Happy city : transforming our lives through urban design / Charles Montgomery.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014Edition: First paperback editionDescription: 358 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780374534882
- 0374534888
- HT 166 .M5865 2014
Contents:
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.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Non-fiction | Main Collection | HT 166 .M5865 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | C20031639 |
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| HT 166 .G438 2010 Cities for people / | HT 166 .G4413 2011 Life between buildings : using public space / | HT 166 .K592 2013 Small town sustainability : economic, social, and environmental innovation / | HT 166 .M5865 2014 Happy city : transforming our lives through urban design / | HT 166 .U7125 2009 The urban and regional planning reader / | HT 167 .A83 1999 Growing greener : putting conservation into local plans and ordinances / | HT 167 .G36 1993 People, plans, and policies : essays on poverty, racism, and other national urban problems / |
Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-355).
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.
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