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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
William Hollingsworth Whyte; Paco Underhill |
| ISBN: | 9780812220742 0812220749 |
| OCLC Number: | 290492920 |
| Notes: | Originally published: New York : Doubleday, c1988. |
| Description: | xiii, 388 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | The social life on the street -- Street people -- The skilled pedestrian -- The physical street -- The sensory street -- The design of spaces -- Water, wind, trees, and light -- The management of spaces -- The undesirables -- Carrying capacity -- Steps and entrances -- Concourses and skyways -- Megastructures -- Blank walls -- The rise and fall of incentive zoning -- Sun and shadow -- Bounce light -- Sun easements -- The corporate exodus -- The semi-cities -- How to dullify downtown -- Tightening up -- The case for gentrification -- Return to the agora -- Appendices : Digest of open-space zoning provisions in New York City ; Mandating of retailing at street level. |
| Responsibility: | William H. Whyte ; photos by the author, foreword by Paco Underhill. |
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"Informal, spontaneous interactions give the modern city its vitality, so Whyte's 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."-Publishers Weekly "City punctures commonplace assumptions about urban life in virtually every chapter... There is genuine brilliance here."-New York Times "We who hug the city to us by instinct are grateful to Whyte for providing us with a hundred-a thousand-arguments for doing so."-New Yorker "City is written in clear, straightforward, and vivid prose... Whyte bubbles over with data... He is an authentic visionary."-Los Angeles Times "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 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."-Library Journal Read more...
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