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Happiness and Place : Why Life Is Better Outside of the City
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This book is about places - cities, suburbs and towns - and happiness of people living there. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Okulicz-Kozaryn examines the relations between human happiness an...
This book is about places - cities, suburbs and towns - and happiness of people living there. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Okulicz-Kozaryn examines the relations between human happiness and the infrastructure of the places they live. This thought-provoking book argues for the overlooked idea that we are happiest in smaller areas.
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- Creator
- by Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed. 2015
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2015
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (137 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781137436337, 1137436336, 1349562394, 1137436328
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- ""Cover ""; ""Half-Title ""; ""Tltle ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Contents ""; ""1 Introductory Matter""; ""1.1 Naming conventions""; ""1.2 Happiness defined""; ""1.3 Brief summary: key points""; ""1.4 Background""; ""1.5 Introduction""; ""2 Urbanization Is Here""; ""2.1 Why? Why people flock to metros, or are they forced by dark economic forces?""; ""2.2 Size fetish, size is power, proud cities""; ""2.3 The forgotten optimal size of a place""; ""2.4 City's bright side: freedom""; ""2.5 Glaeser's latest book: triumph of the city that is not (countering common pro-urbanism)""
- ""3 Urban Malaise: Explorations of Problems and Dissatisfaction with City Life""""3.1 Gemeinschaft (not city) vs Gesellschaft (city): inequality, a critique of capitalism, back to Marx""; ""3.2 City is unnatural, city is contradictory, success kills affordability and authenticity""; ""3.3 Observing city life""; ""3.4 Quantitative evidence, the largest and densest cities are least happy, even ``best'' or successful cities are unhappy""; ""4 Biophilia: Need for Contact with Nature""; ""4.1 We are not made for cities""; ""4.2 The more nature, the less material possessions""
- ""4.3 Suburban sprawl as a mistaken solution""""5 Summary, Conclusion, Discussion and Future Research""; ""5.1 Too many people""; ""5.2 Too much consumption""; ""5.3 Solutions. Policy?""; ""References""; ""Index""