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After ages of unchecked sprawl, more folks than ever are moving back again to the town. Dense metropolitan living has been recommended as a panacea for environmentally friendly and resource crises of our own time. But is it better or worse for our happiness? Are subways, sidewalks, and tower dwelling improvements on the car dependence of sprawl? Award-winning journalist Charles Montgomery detects answers to such questions at the intersection between metropolitan design and the emerging science of happiness and during an exciting journey through a few of the world's most strong cities. He fits the visionary mayor who released a "sexy" lipstick-red bus to help ease status stress and anxiety in Bogotá; the architect who brought the lessons of medieval Tuscan hill cities to modern-day New York City; the activist who switched Paris' metropolitan freeways into beaches; and an army of North american suburbanites who've altered their lives by hacking the designs of their roads and neighborhoods. Full of rich historical depth and new insights from psychologists and Montgomery's own metropolitan experiments, Happy City can be an essential tool for understanding and enhancing our own communities.
