- Psychology, Psychological aspects, City planning, Environmental psychology
"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"--
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Contemporary, classical in form, earnest and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Charles Montgomery
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 358
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780374168230
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