Recipes for Urban Happiness

Design for Community Well-Being
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-367-34034-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 857 g

The experiences we enjoy, endure, or miss out on are influenced by what our surroundings allow and invite us to do. Just like our food diet, our experience diet influences our health and so our chances of finding happiness and fulfilling our potential. A healthy experience diet offers inspiration, reassurance, delight, and play. It nurtures physical, cognitive, and emotional health, builds resilience, and fosters confidence and self-esteem. An unhealthy experience diet lacks these things and consigns people to lives diminished in quantity and quality. Recipes for Urban Happiness offers an innovative way of looking at the relationship between people and place and redefines what good urban design is. The book outlines what designers and non-designers can do to create urban places where nurturing behaviours are both possible and preferable. Recipes for Urban Happiness will be relevant to public health, community development, and design practitioners, as well as students and academics.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, Professional, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Donovan, Jenny

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction  2. The philosophy behind this book  3. Human needs  4. Our experience diet and experience menu  5. Our motivational compass  6. Needs fulfilling experiences  7. Feeling secure  8. Moving  9. Belonging and connecting  10. Fun and expression  11. Hoping  12. Experiencing nature and green space  13. Understanding and awareness  14. Downstream vital experiences  15. Needs denying experiences  16. Challenges in balancing experience diets  17. Changing the menu  18. Recipes for a nurturing experience diet  19. Emotional capital(ism)  20. Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Jenny Donovan is the Program Manager-Regional Planning at the Cradle Coast Authority in Tasmania. Her experience spans urban and landscape design, social and environmental planning, community development and neighbourhood renewal in Australia, Afghanistan, the UK, Palestine, Ireland, Ethiopia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Sri Lanka.