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发表于2024-11-08
Happy City pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
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
略顯拖遝,但是很多觀點和佐證是好的。北美城市郊區化的規劃方案直接影響瞭我們的生活方式。而人與人之間的關係、通勤的時間和方式、對環境的影響等等,若是對現狀不滿,想改變,就需要靠自己努力爭取。
評分真的是太囉嗦瞭......讀瞭2/3實在讀不下去瞭
評分城市規劃和環境心理學還是很好玩的。這書缺點也很明顯,例子羅羅嗦嗦地講得太多瞭,說實話乾貨大概隻有五分之一不到的內容……
評分通過日常生活給讀者普及如何設計和改善城市。能學到很多新知識
評分通過日常生活給讀者普及如何設計和改善城市。能學到很多新知識
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Happy City pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024