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A review by callanisreading
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
When you picture the good life, what do you see? Where do you imagine living your happiest life?
We know our built environment can have a profound impact on our quality of life: our blood pressure rises at the thought of sitting in traffic and we unthinkingly exhale when we enter a tree-filled park. Montgomery illustrates the ways our cities impact us (more than we realize) and examines the forces (people, corporations, and politicians) that determine what precisely can be built. In this hopeful volume, Montgomery demonstrates that together, we can build cities that will change the world.
We know our built environment can have a profound impact on our quality of life: our blood pressure rises at the thought of sitting in traffic and we unthinkingly exhale when we enter a tree-filled park. Montgomery illustrates the ways our cities impact us (more than we realize) and examines the forces (people, corporations, and politicians) that determine what precisely can be built. In this hopeful volume, Montgomery demonstrates that together, we can build cities that will change the world.