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Happy city by Charles Montgomery · Booklabria

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Happy city

PsychologyPsychological aspects

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First published: 2013

Synopsis

"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"--

Subjects: Psychology
Psychological aspects
Happiness
Applied Psychology
City planning
Architecture and society

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Edition details

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2013
Edition: First edition.
Pages: 358
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0374168230
ISBN-10: 0374168237

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