Happy City

Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

North American hardcover edition (2013)
Author	Charles Montgomery
Country	United States, Canada, UK
Language	English
Genre	Urban planning, Nonfiction
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Random House, Penguin Books
Publication date	2013
Media type	Print & Digital
Pages	359 pp (first edition)
ISBN	978-0-374-16823-0

Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design is a 2013 book written by the Canadian author Charles Montgomery. Gathering insights from the disciplines of psychology, neuroscience, urban planning and Montgomery’s own social experiments, the book makes the case that the manner in which we build our cities alters the way in which we feel, think, and behave as individuals and as a society. Montgomery argues that the happy city, the green city, and the low-carbon city are the same place, and we can all help build it.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

The book was a shortlisted nominee for the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.^[8]

Chapters

The book contains 13 chapters and an epilogue:

1. The Mayor of Happy
2. The City has Always Been a Happiness Project
3. The (Broken) Social Scene
4. How We Got Here
5. Getting it Wrong
6. How to be Closer
7. Convivialities
8. Mobilicities I: How Moving Feels, and Why It Does Not Feel Better
9. Mobilicities II: Freedom
10. Who Is The City For?
11. Everything Is Connected to Everything Else
12. Retrofitting Sprawl
13. Save Your City, Save Yourself

References

1. Moore, Rowan. "Happy City by Charles Montgomery – review". theguardian.com. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
2. EHRENHALT, Alan. "Greener Pastures Charles Montgomery's 'Happy City'". nytimes.com. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
3. "Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design". us.macmillan.com. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
4. Grescoe, Taras. "Book Review: Happy City, by Charles Montgomery". arts.nationalpost.com. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
5. "Book Review: Charles Montgomery's "Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design"". livablecities.org. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
6. Galloway, Gloria. "Charles Montgomery: How to make cities that make people happy". theglobeandmail.com. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
7. Schumacher, Mary Louise. "Book looks at cities' roles in happiness". jsonline.com. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
8. "Hilary Weston Prize 2014: The shortlist revealed!". CBC Books, September 17, 2014.

External links

• Review of Happy City at the New York Times
• Review of Happy City at The Guardian
• Review of Happy City at Urban Land Institute