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发表于2024-11-09
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A globe-trotting, eye-opening exploration of how cities can—and do—make us happier people
Charles Montgomery’s Happy City will revolutionize the way we think about urban life.
After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time. But is it better or worse for our happiness? Are subways, sidewalks, and tower dwelling an improvement on the car-dependence of sprawl?
The award-winning journalist Charles Montgomery finds answers to such questions at the intersection between urban design and the emerging science of happiness, and during an exhilarating journey through some of the world’s most dynamic cities. He meets the visionary mayor who introduced a “sexy” lipstick-red bus to ease status anxiety in Bogotá; the architect who brought the lessons of medieval Tuscan hill towns to modern-day New York City; the activist who turned Paris’s urban freeways into beaches; and an army of American suburbanites who have transformed their lives by hacking the design of their streets and neighborhoods.
Full of rich historical detail and new insights from psychologists and Montgomery’s own urban experiments, Happy City is an essential tool for understanding and improving our own communities. The message is as surprising as it is hopeful: by retrofitting our cities for happiness, we can tackle the urgent challenges of our age. The happy city, the green city, and the low-carbon city are the same place, and we can all help build it.
Charles Montgomery is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Shark God, which won the 2005 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction under its Canadian
略显拖沓,但是很多观点和佐证是好的。北美城市郊区化的规划方案直接影响了我们的生活方式。而人与人之间的关系、通勤的时间和方式、对环境的影响等等,若是对现状不满,想改变,就需要靠自己努力争取。
评分略显拖沓,但是很多观点和佐证是好的。北美城市郊区化的规划方案直接影响了我们的生活方式。而人与人之间的关系、通勤的时间和方式、对环境的影响等等,若是对现状不满,想改变,就需要靠自己努力争取。
评分在老师每周读书回馈的逼迫下,我差不多读完。全书想要探讨的方面挺多的,很多点都是轻轻提及而过。印象最深刻的是对happy本质的解读,和人与自然关系那块,还有最后揭示行政权力code的束缚性(是挺生动,又啰里八嗦的)。
评分啰啰嗦嗦讲了一堆已经过时的观点
评分通过日常生活给读者普及如何设计和改善城市。能学到很多新知识
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Happy City pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024