Happy City

Happy City

By
Charles Montgomery
Charles Montgomery
2012 • 368 pages

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15 books

Sociology And Social Work

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Flaire
Happy City
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
Soft City
So You Want to Talk about Race
How to Be an Antiracist

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162 books

Non Fiction

FlaireAichi
Flaire
Happy City
Saving Jemima
Adventures for Your Soul: 21 Ways to Transform Your Habits and Reach Your Full Potential
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Hammer head
Extra Virginity

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359 books

Nonfiction

Nowenen
Alexander
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Обезьяны, нейроны и душа
The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
The Year of Living Biblically
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
The Grand Design
No Logo

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32 books

Sociology

Nowenen
Alexander
The Trouble with Physics
The Drunkard's Walk
No Logo
Columbine
The Year of Living Biblically
Letters to a Young Contrarian
How Music Got Free

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17 books

Urban Planning

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zach
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
What the Eyes Don't See
Happy City
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The City in History
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

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28 books

Mount Pleasant Book Club 2015 2016

sillygwailo
Richard Eriksson
The Anatomist's Apprentice
And the Mountains Echoed
Blood & Beauty
Bring me one of everything
The Circle
The Far Side of the Sky
In the Shadow of the Banyan

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30 books

Mount Pleasant Book Club 2014 2015

sillygwailo
Richard Eriksson
The Orenda
Americanah
The Anatomist's Apprentice
And the Mountains Echoed
Blood & Beauty
Bring me one of everything

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39 books

Nonfiction

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Céline
Manabé Shima
Des femmes qui ne font que ce qu'elles veulent
Un clou dans le bec
Axolot
Unladylike
What Would Boudicca Do?: Everyday Problems Solved by History's Most Remarkable Women

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29 books

Urban Planning

enilec
Céline
Vaikštomas miestas
Strong Towns
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
Happy City
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
The High Cost of Free Parking

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1 book

Architecture And Urbanism

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Igor
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30 books

To Read Non Fiction

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Alex Greenwood
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Reading for the Love of God
Cry Like a Man: Fighting for Freedom from Emotional Incarceration
Happy City
Barracoon
Powers and Thrones

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36 books

Social Science

General
Spiro
Next: Where to Live, What to Buy, and Who Will Lead Canada's Future
The Triumph of Injustice : How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
Empty Planet
Right Here, Right Now: Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption
21 Lessons for the 21st Century

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7 books

Environment

General
Spiro
The Secret Wisdom of Nature : Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things --- Stories from Science and Observation
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The future
Happy City
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

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2 books

Urbanization

General
Spiro
Happy City
Maximum Canada

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3 books

Urban Planning

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Ben
Human Transit
Happy City
Vaikštomas miestas

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24 books

Non Fiction

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Ben
The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor
The Burnout Society
Im Grunde gut: Eine neue Geschichte der Menschheit
It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
Human Transit

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6 books

Cities

Coops
Cooper
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
Happy City
Triumph of the City
A History of Future Cities
Robert Moses

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25 books

I Am A Proud Nerd

Devino
Devin
Fluke
The Power of Geography
Disunited Nations
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

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39 books

We Are Fcked

Devino
Devin
The Founding Myth
Blood Farm: The Explosive Big Pharma Scandal That Altered the AIDS Crisis
Sickening
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Palaces for the People
These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America

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83 books

Non Fiction

toaks
Roslyn
Furiously Happy
Empireland
Calypso
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
Vi
The War of Art
The Social Contract

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18 books

Politics Economics

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Roslyn
Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore
Superior: The Return of Race Science
Happy City
Gate of the Sun
Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians
The Botany of Desire

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553 books

Non Fiction

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pickles
Gender Failure
Work
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Kayak Morning: Reflections on Love, Grief, and Small Boats

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4 books

Urban Planning

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pickles
Happy City
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Right of Way

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511 books

Non Fiction

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Eugene Wilder
Where Men Win Glory
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
Eating Animals
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Way We Eat
The Rest Is Noise

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68 books

Mission Critical

zween_eugene
Eugene Wilder
Last Child in the Woods
The Diversity of Life
Reading in the Brain
The World Without Us
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
American Gods
Rabbit, Run
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