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title: "Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design"
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# Sustainable Solutions Data-Driven Insights Urban Innovation Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

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## Key Features

- • **Data-Driven Design:** Utilize analytics to enhance urban planning and livability.
- • **Global Perspectives:** Gain insights from cities around the world transforming urban life.
- • **Empowering Communities:** Foster social connections through innovative public spaces.
- • **Sustainability at Its Core:** Learn how eco-friendly practices shape our urban future.
- • **Revolutionary Urban Concepts:** Explore cutting-edge designs that redefine city living.

## Overview

Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design is a groundbreaking exploration of how innovative urban design can enhance our daily lives, promote sustainability, and foster community engagement. This book offers a wealth of data-driven insights and global perspectives, making it an essential read for anyone interested in the future of urban living.

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Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design [Montgomery, Charles] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

Review: Interesting book - In depth, thought provoking book.
Review: Great Book That Holds Your Attention - Throughly enjoyed this book. A lot of urban design books are written in a dry manner; Montgomery does a great job keeping attention through his prose. The stories were relevant and on point, if not a bit recycled for other sources. His assessment is strong, but you couldn't call it objective. He uses many points in the book to assert his position, mainly around how awful cars are (which, while I don't disagree, is getting old as a rant in these kinds of books). I highly recommend it for any urban studies nerd, and would encourage you to additionally read Walkable City and Street Smarts as companion pieces. Between those three books, they do a great job of giving you the history, the science, the statistics, and the possibilities for the future of smart, happy, walkable cities.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #45,246 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #5 in City Planning & Urban Development #6 in Urban Planning and Development #21 in Sociology of Urban Areas |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (1,128) |
| Dimensions  | 5.49 x 0.92 x 8.25 inches |
| Edition  | Reprint |
| ISBN-10  | 0374534888 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0374534882 |
| Item Weight  | 11.2 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 368 pages |
| Publication date  | October 7, 2014 |
| Publisher  | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Interesting book
*by S***Y on December 14, 2025*

In depth, thought provoking book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Book That Holds Your Attention
*by J***Y on January 23, 2016*

Throughly enjoyed this book. A lot of urban design books are written in a dry manner; Montgomery does a great job keeping attention through his prose. The stories were relevant and on point, if not a bit recycled for other sources. His assessment is strong, but you couldn't call it objective. He uses many points in the book to assert his position, mainly around how awful cars are (which, while I don't disagree, is getting old as a rant in these kinds of books). I highly recommend it for any urban studies nerd, and would encourage you to additionally read Walkable City and Street Smarts as companion pieces. Between those three books, they do a great job of giving you the history, the science, the statistics, and the possibilities for the future of smart, happy, walkable cities.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Motivating and interesting read
*by N***E on February 17, 2014*

I've always been intrigued by traffic engineering and urban design, though admittedly not very knowledgeable about either, so this book interested me as soon as I read an excerpt from Slate.com. Despite occasionally veering toward the preachy, it offers well researched and extremely compelling arguments for cultivating more diversity and "conviviality" in the places we live. I'd recommend to anyone intrigued by similar subjects or just trying to understand more about how we're impacted by the structures and patterns around us. Quitting my day job to rewrite city code might be a bridge too far for me right now, even if it has some appeal after reading this. I'll at least invite the neighbors over for happy hour and maybe start reading more about the new development plans for my town... it's a start. :)

## Frequently Bought Together

- Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
- Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Tenth Anniversary Edition)
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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