I hope you enjoyed or are still enjoying reading Happy City. I find it to be a prominent book in urban planning as it asks important, philosophical questions about how we should design cities and who we should design them for. When it comes to urban planning it is important to ask these questions as what we build will last for decades (hopefully).
In Happy City I particularly enjoyed reading about Aristotle and Eudaimonia in the second chapter. To me, Ancient Athens is an example of the perfect city which provides happiness to the people who live there. However it was not designed specifically to promote happiness, rather it provided the opportunity for happiness to occur through conversations in markets, open debate and close proximity to religious and cultural buildings.
What did everyone else think? Another post will be made later today on what we will be reading for the next two months.
I hope you enjoyed or are still enjoying reading Happy City. I find it to be a prominent book in urban planning as it asks important, philosophical questions about how we should design cities and who we should design them for. When it comes to urban planning it is important to ask these questions as what we build will last for decades (hopefully).
In Happy City I particularly enjoyed reading about Aristotle and Eudaimonia in the second chapter. To me, Ancient Athens is an example of the perfect city which provides happiness to the people who live there. However it was not designed specifically to promote happiness, rather it provided the opportunity for happiness to occur through conversations in markets, open debate and close proximity to religious and cultural buildings.
What did everyone else think? Another post will be made later today on what we will be reading for the next two months.
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