Ciudad feliz

This book offers us an eye-opening exploration of how cities can make us happier. After decades of uncontrolled expansion into peripheral areas, more and more people are returning to urban centers. Life in them has been prescribed as the panacea for the environmental and resource crisis of our time, but is it better or worse for our happiness? Through an exhilarating journey through some of the world's most dynamic cities, Montgomery finds answers to these questions at the intersection of urban design and the emerging science of happiness. He introduces us to the visionary mayor of Bogotá who implemented a network of luxury buses to attract more users, the architect who transferred the lessons of the medieval cities of Tuscany to New York City, the activist who turned the urban highways of Paris into beaches and an army of suburban Americans redesigning their own streets and neighborhoods. The message is as surprising as it is hopeful: if we update cities for happiness, we can face the most urgent challenges of our time.