I'm doing research about urban design approaches to make a happy city,it's the topic of my thesis.i want to know how can urban design help the citizen to be happy? what kind of place make us happier? is there any city that started happiness studying through urban design approaches?
is there any suggestion?
thank you so much.
Dear Sahar,
I think that a city with good public services, transport, green areas and very little pollution makes citizens happy live in it.
I suggest the book:
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery - 2013.
Best wishes,
Vanessa
I would suggest making it more specific to the type of people, demographics, spatial characteristics, economy status of the society, climate and so on. Including factors of livability could also help.
http://sites.asiasociety.org/PCSI/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Creating-Resilient-and-Livable-Cities_2web.pdf
Dear Sahar,
I'm not sure you read French, but you might be interested in this reference anyway: the concept of a happy city (and happiness in the city) was developed a few years ago by Georges Amar (author of Homo Mobilis and researcher specializing in infrastructure studies) in a very interesting article:
AMAR, G. (2003). Le bonheur d'une ville: Pour un génie poétique. In Annales de la recherche urbaine (No. 94, pp. 81-86).
Enjoy your research
best
d.
Dear Sahar,
I think that a city with good public services, transport, green areas and very little pollution makes citizens happy live in it.
I suggest the book:
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery - 2013.
Best wishes,
Vanessa
Hi Sahar,
since you asked "what kind of place makes us happier?" I would like to quote Jan Sircus (2001): "Place has meaning and memories. Place is not passive. Place is not good or bad simply because it's real vs surrogate, authentic vs pastiche. People enjoy both, whether it's created over centuries, or created instantly. A successful place, like a novel or movie, engages us actively in an emotional experience orchestrated and organised to communicate purpose and story."
I hope that helps. Enjoy your research!
Prananda
This link holds a paper which might be of your interest:
http://archnet-ijar.net/index.php/IJAR/article/view/878
it is a very important question, as you know making happy in the city needs a lot of requirement such as good infrastructure, good education facilities, suitable economic and considering social identity etc. so with merely by designing the physical spaces you can't have a happy city
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