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Happy
City
Lessons
from the emerging science of happiness can be used to fix
broken cities--and lives--around the world.
Despite
costing more to build, operate and occupy than almost any
other built landscape in history, modern cities fail to maximize
happiness.
Happy
City will reveal the striking relationship between the design
of our minds and the design of our cities. It will carry readers
on an adventure through the streets of the world towards an
idea that is surprising as it is hopeful. Doomsayers have
warned that action to tackle the urgent challenges of climate
change and energy scarcity will lead us into decades of hardship
and sacrifice. Cities—and citizens—around the
world are demonstrating the opposite: that the green city,
the low-carbon city and the happy city are one and the same.
This story will inspire readers to reach for it.
The book will be published in the USA by Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, in the UK by Alan Lane/Penguin, and in Canada by Doubleday.
Read
more from the Happy City archives:
From
Living Hell to Living Well: Once-infernal Bogota, Colombia,
now leads the world's urban happiness movement. From The
Globe & Mail.
The
Archipelago of Fear: Are
fortification and fear making Kabul more dangerous? From The
Walrus:
Me
Want More Square Footage: Why following the urge to buy
a big house may please your cave man genes, but render you
miserable. From The Walrus.
The
Paris Experiment
A
radical experiment uses bicycles to tinker with urban psychology.
From EnRoute.
The
Grim Repo
Real
estate speculation is tearing holes in North American cities.
Can we resist the hot deal? From The Walrus.
Sad
City
How
come residents of the world's most livable city are sadder
than their cousins in hicksville? From Vancouver Magazine.
...Meanwhile
in Portland: Trike-racing rebels reconfigure America's
greenest city. From Vancouver Magazine.
...and
Portland disrobed: Notes from the World Naked Bike Ride,
from World Streets Blog. Italian
translation
Citizen
Hern and the safety obsession
Vancouver's
punk urbanist wants us all to stand in traffic. From Vancouver
Magazine.
And
the Pursuit of Happiness
How
a global well-being movement is making CEOs smile. From R.O.B.
Magazine.
Futureville:
Vancouver
The
fastest-growing downtown in North America and a revolution
in sustainable urbanism. From Canadian Geographic.
Download
the full story as PDF, here.
A
Tale of Two Desert Cities Abu Dhabi's sheiks are turning
the world's richest city into the anti-Dubai—with inspiration
from Vancouver. From enRoute.
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