Find what to do today, this weekend, or in July. Amsterdam is one of the happiest and most liveable cities in the world. November 12th 2013 Her studies culminated with a thesis on social and environmental programming in provincial parks, later submitted to the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. I was very pleasantly surprised by the scale of this book as well as the consistent level of detail, the quality of arguments, figures, and anecdotes, and the author's writing skill. Published Happy City — happily, optimistically — outlines how the design of our shared urban spaces can be humanized and changed for the better. He also produced Happy City’s groundbreaking collaboration with neuroscientists to examine the social effects of public space design in West Palm Beach. I was introduced to the book via a study that I participated in at my church; I had no idea how engaging it would be and what great discussion it would prompt. It turns out our grand urban design may have us traveling - literally - in the wrong direction.Over the two-week period during which I read this book, I drove my partner crazy talking about it. Despite the increase of obesity rates all over the world, the Netherlands is one of OECD countries with the lowest rate and the only EU country where it is gradually decreasing - especially among the lowest income residents. Mitchell is a compelling lecturer whose paradigm-shifting keynotes on the link between urban design, sustainable planning and human health have moved audiences in Canada and in Europe.Mitchell received his Masters of Science in Urban and Regional Planning at Stockholm University in Sweden.
It's on a subject with which I'm already obsessed: urban sprawl and urban design. I JUST REALLY HATE CARS GUYS, and this book convinced me even further.As much as I enjoy my non-fiction reads, this was not a topic that I ever thought I'll find myself reading.
She is a sessional lecturer UBC and has experience teaching urban theory, and project and urban methodologies. Charles Montgomery makes a strong case that in our quest to have the big house, white-picket fence, two-car garage and 2.5 kids, many people have exchanged square footage for a long commute. Tristan Cleveland is an urban planner and writer who has worked in Canada, Guyana, and Venezuela. While containing a number of persuasive anecdotes toward the trials and tribulations of suburbia, Happy City is light on meaningful facts, contains few supporting statistics and completely fails to quantify benefits to happiness, well-being and environmental impact. Comités d’entreprise. I didn't zip through it, enthralled, but I engaged it every day--mostly in nibbles during my lunch hour--and it would form the touchstone of my thoughts on my commuting drive home.When I carry a book's ideas around in my head and, day after day, look at my surroundings through the eyes of those ideas, that's when I have to think that a book has had an impact on me. As you'll hear in the book, many of our cities have been shaped by roads and highways which only came about with the mass production of the automobile. He also makes a very convincing case for the fact that the collective happiness of society will rise if we have more ways to interact with each other in our daily lives - a product of the aforementioned improvements. You guys, I just hate cars so much. HeI wouldn't have guessed that urban planning would prove such a fascinating topic to me, but last year I gave high marks to Jeff Speck's Walkable City and I am now doing the same for Charles Montgomery's Happy City. As we wrap up our 2018 Reading Challenge, we decided to ask our Goodreads coworkers a simple yet tough question: What were the ...Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban DesignWhen I carry a book's ideas around in my head and, day after day, look at my surroundings through the eyes of those ideas, that's when I have to think that a book has had an impact on me. His research was selected among “The Management Ideas that Mattered Most in 2016” by Harvard Business Review and he was awarded the Ruut Veenhoven Award in 2015 for his contributions to the scientific study of happiness.
It makes a strong, well supported and well case-studied case for addressing, well, things that most of us will feel are obvious about what's wrong with (many) cities and the kind of human scale 'software' and 'hardware' measures that can make life, frankly, happier.
He offers real solutions, my favorite when discussing civic engagement:If you care about your city and your lifestyle, read this book. He has devoted his life and career to reforming planning so building communities that support the basic needs of human health becomes the new minimum standard.Marten leads Happy City’s European operations – giving presentations, facilitating workshops, creating experiments, performing site audits, and designing spaces, services and engagement processes.
He is best known for his research on the economics of happiness which has led to new insights into the relationship between happiness and income, economic growth, and inequality. Happy City is not about the environment, healthy living, or meeting our neighbors, though these subjects are covered.It’s been almost a decade since journalist and author Charles Montgomery published his debut book, the Charles Taylor Prize winning The Last Heathen. You guys, I just hate cars so much. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. He offers real solutions, my favorite when discussing civic engagement:Remarkably well written and logically organized, Happy City proposes urban planning that is flexible, and able to respond to climate change, population growth, migration, economic downturns and social & cultural shifts.