Abstract
Cities are increasingly seen as people’s habitat. Citizen tend to regard urban life not only as a convenient way of finding a job or acquiring income, but also as a modus vivendi to enjoy a great variety of urban amenities (culture, friendship, entertainment, urban ‘ambiance’, etc.). Against this background, we observe a rapid rise in urban [un]happiness studies in relation to liveability and quality of life in cities. The present chapter focuses on urban mobility as a source of urbanites’ happiness (or lack thereof). It addresses related key issues from empirical research literature, including a brief overview of urban ‘slow motion’. The study concludes with a summary and a prospective view of future urban challenges in the context of social wellbeing.
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This work was supported by a grant of the Romanian Ministry of Research and Innovation, CNCS—UEFISCDI, project number PN-III-P4-ID-PCCF-2016-0166, within the PNCDI III” project ReGrowEU—advancing groundbreaking research in regional growth and development theories, through a resilience approach: towards a convergent, balanced, and sustainable European Union.
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Kourtit, K., Nijkamp, P., Toger, M. (2023). Sustainable Cities, Quality of Life, and Mobility-Related Happiness. In: Vaz, E. (eds) Geography of Happiness. Contributions to Regional Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19871-7_6
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