Happiness and Place
Subtitle: Why Life Is Better Outside of the City
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781137436320
Subjects: Cities and towns; Rural conditions; Human beings, effect of environment on; Happiness; United states, social conditions
Description: Happiness and Place is about places -- cities, suburbs and towns -- and happiness of people living there. Taking an interdisciplinary, approach, Okulicz-Kozaryn examines the relationship between human happiness and the infrastructure of the places they live in. The work takes the increasing urbanization of the United States as its focus, but draws on global examples, discussing the factors that attract people to live in cities and suburbs and the decreasing happiness associated with that lifestyle. Amidst the common pro-urbanism or pro-sub-urbanism, this thought-provoking book argues for the often overlooked idea that we are happiest in smaller areas.