Product Description: An authoritative, comprehensive, and highly accessible assessment of the happiest and least happy countries and cities in the world, as well as of the happiest and least happy cities and states in the United States.• Supplies insightful and interesting information about all of the most contented and least contented countries and cities around the globe―and the factors that make the people who live in these places notably happy or discontented• Examines and explains the complexity of happiness and contentment as they apply to specific places and regions in the world• Synthesizes and evaluates the maze of existing rankings of cities and countries in the world with fresh and original information to produce a novel assessment of the geography of global happiness• Presents information about cities and countries in all parts of the world fairly and in both positive and negative light...read more

Product Description: With case studies from Spain, Turkey, Brazil, the UK, the USA and Israel, it discusses issues such as low-cost housing, security, environmental conservation and sustainability, alternative building techniques, cultral diversity and its impact on housing and urban designs.

Product Description: This book examines and documents the remarkable development and transformation of suburban form throughout the globe during the twentieth century. The premise that suburban areas are monotonous, inert environments is put to a test through investigation of the complexity of those suburban settings and the dynamic physical changes that have taken place since their inception...read more

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Product Description: This is an examination of various methods used to measure the quality of life (QOL) across countries. It expands the scope of QOL indices to include political environment and presents new methods to construct indices and to weight different parameters...read more