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UMN Researcher Finds Happiest Commutes are the Most Environmentally Friendly - MPRnews

People experience many emotions when commuting, but is happiness one of them?

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That’s the question Yingling Fan, a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Minnesota, set out to answer. She found that the happiest commutes were often the most environmentally friendly, and says that the best way to increase happiness in public spaces is to design them with the needs of the most marginalized communities in mind.


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