Uses observations of pedestrians to describe and analyze the city, and assesses the influence of architecture and urban planning.

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City : rediscovering the centre

Whyte, William H. (William Hollingsworth)

William Hollingsworth Whyte

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Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc

Random House, Incorporated

Delacorte Press

Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 2), Philadelphia, 2009

Anchor books. Sociology, New York, 1990

United States, United States of America

New York, London, United Kingdom, 1990

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2009

PHILADELPHIA, 2012

Illustrated, 2009

January 1, 1990

New York, ©1988

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Originally published: New York : Doubleday, c1988.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-377) and index.

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Bookmarks:
1. (p1) 1 Introduction
2. (p2) 2 The Social Life of the Street
3. (p3) 3 Street People
4. (p4) 4 The Skilled Pedestrian
5. (p5) 5 The Physical Street
6. (p6) 6 The Sensory Street
7. (p7) 7 The Design of Spaces
8. (p8) 8 Water, Wind, Trees, and Light
9. (p9) 9 The Management of Spaces
10. (p10) 10 The Undesirables
11. (p11) 11 Carrying Capacity
12. (p12) 12 Steps and Entrances
13. (p13) 13 Concourses and Skyways
14. (p14) 14 Megastructures
15. (p15) 15 Blank Walls
16. (p16) 16 The Rise and Fall of Incentive Zoning
17. (p17) 17 Sun and Shadow
18. (p18) 18 Bounce Light
19. (p19) 19 Sun Easements
20. (p20) 20 The Corporate Exodus
21. (p21) 21 The Semi-Cities
22. (p22) 22 How to Dullify Downtown
23. (p23) 23 Tightening Up
24. (p24) 24 The Case for Gentrification
25. (p25) 25 Return to the Agora
26. (p26) Appendix A Digest of Open-Space Zoning Provisions New York City
27. (p27) Appendix B Mandating of Retailing at Street Level
28. (p28) Notes
29. (p29) Bibliography
30. (p30) Index

Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "Fifty Books for Our Time."
For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior, and city dynamics. City: Rediscovering the Center is the result of that research, a humane, often amusing view of what is staggeringly obvious about the urban environment but seemingly invisible to those responsible for planning it.
Whyte uses time-lapse photography to chart the anatomy of metropolitan congestion. Why is traffic so badly distributed on city streets? Why do New Yorkers walk so fast—and jaywalk so incorrigibly? Why aren't there more collisions on the busiest walkways? Why do people who stop to talk gravitate to the center of the pedestrian traffic stream? Why do places designed primarily for security actually worsen it? Why are public restrooms disappearing? "The city is full of vexations," Whyte avers: "Steps too steep; doors too tough to open; ledges you cannot sit on. . . . It is difficult to design an urban space so maladroitly that people will not use it, but there are many such spaces." Yet Whyte finds encouragement in the widespread rediscovery of the city center. The future is not in the suburbs, he believes, but in that center. Like a Greek agora, the city must reassert its most ancient function as a place where people come together face-to-face.
From Publishers Weekly "Informal, spontaneous interactions give the modern city its vitality, so Whyte's ( The Organization Man ) enemies are urban planners who evince disregard and even contempt for street life. Part meditation, part design manual, this marvelously observant tour of cities will please anyone who cares about urban livability," lauded PW.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal Whyte's Street Life Project studied the use of urban spaces for 16 years. This follow-up to The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces ( LJ 4/15/80) is an engaging look at the variety of human interactions which make "downtown" vibrant. Whyte looks at such diverse topics as pedestrian movement, concourses and skyways, sunlight and its effects--all from the perspective of a confirmed city-lover. His observations and recommendations can be read with profit and pleasure by professional planners and readers interested in what makes a city tick.
- Diane K. Harvey, SAIS-Johns Hopkins Univ. Lib., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Prés. de l'éd. : For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior, and city dynamics. City: Rediscovering the Center is the result of that research, a humane, often amusing view of what is staggeringly obvious about the urban environment but seemingly invisible to those responsible for planning it. Whyte uses time-lapse photography to chart the anatomy of metropolitan congestion. Why is traffic so badly distributed on city streets? Why do New Yorkers walk so fast-and jaywalk so incorrigibly? Why aren't there more collisions on the busiest walkways? Why do people who stop to talk gravitate to the center of the pedestrian traffic stream? Why do places designed primarily for security actually worsen it? Why are public restrooms disappearing? "The city is full of vexations," Whyte avers: "Steps too steep; doors too tough to open; ledges you cannot sit on. It is difficult to design an urban space so maladroitly that people will not use it, but there are many such spaces." Yet Whyte finds encouragement in the widespread rediscovery of the city center. The future is not in the suburbs, he believes, but in that center. Like a Greek agora, the city must reassert its most ancient function as a place where people come together face-to-face

<p><p>In a challenging and provocative book, William Whyte, author of the classic <i>The Organization Man</i>, observes the influence public spaces have on the people who use them. In this exploration of pedestrian behavior and urban dynamics, he calls on city planners to provide functional, pleasant places to live and work.<p></p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>``Informal, spontaneous interactions give the modern city its vitality, so Whyte's ( The Organization Man ) enemies are urban planners who evince disregard and even contempt for street life. Part meditation, part design manual, this marvelously observant tour of cities will please anyone who cares about urban livability,'' lauded PW. (Feb.)</p>

By mostly watching people the author describes and analyzes the city and its people and the effect each makes on the other

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