Tag: Happiness Index

Urban Happiness Index, Expanded

Scott Bernstein
Scott Bernstein
Hazel Borys’ ideas on the Healthy Places Index yesterday brought to mind some of my own thoughts on the matter -- thoughts in excess of what might reasonably be tolerated in the comments section. Thanks to PlaceMakers for providing me the opportunity to share them here. On Saturday at a used bookstore, I picked up... Continue Reading
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Urban Happiness Index Revisited

Hazel Borys
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A couple of weeks ago I floated some ideas on a national Urban Happiness Index. Similar to Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index and Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness index, which is being contemplated by China, an Urban Happiness Index would tie satisfaction and wellbeing to the form of the built environment. Perhaps an... Continue Reading
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Can Cities Help You Forget Your Troubles? C’mon, Get Happy!

Hazel Borys
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In most physical and policy planning, triple bottom line benchmarks focus on environment and economy, and tend to skim over the subject of society. That's probably because urban design impacts are much easier to measure with respect to profit and planet than they are with respect to people. Any good MBA... Continue Reading
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