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Author Okulicz-Kozaryn, Adam, author.

Title Happiness and place : why life is better outside of the city / Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn
Published Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series Palgrave pivot
Palgrave pivot.
Contents 1. Introductory Matter -- 2. Urbanization is Here -- 3. Urban Malaise: Explorations of Problems and Dissatisfaction with City Life -- 4. Biophilia: Need for Contact With Nature -- 5. Summary, Conclusion, Discussion and Future Research
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 2, 2018)
Subject Sociology, Urban.
Happiness.
Happiness
urban sociology.
Social & cultural anthropology.
Population & demography.
Human geography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Happiness
Sociology, Urban
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137436337
1137436336
1137436344
9781137436344
9781349562398
1349562394