LEADER 04933nam 2200805 a 450 001 9910452686403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89827-6 010 $a0-8122-0834-X 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812208344 035 $a(CKB)2550000000707667 035 $a(EBL)3441790 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000786960 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11486521 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000786960 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10821780 035 $a(PQKB)11262574 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441790 035 $a(OCoLC)833592932 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23568 035 $a(DE-B1597)449611 035 $a(OCoLC)1015865513 035 $a(OCoLC)1037979309 035 $a(OCoLC)1041979349 035 $a(OCoLC)1046622501 035 $a(OCoLC)1047130455 035 $a(OCoLC)1049677755 035 $a(OCoLC)1054882042 035 $a(OCoLC)979577385 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812208344 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441790 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642125 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421077 035 $a(OCoLC)932312763 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000707667 100 $a20100312e20091988 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCity$b[electronic resource] $erediscovering the center /$fWilliam H. Whyte ; photos by the author ; foreword by Paco Underhill 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (408 p.) 300 $aOriginally published: New York : Doubleday, c1988. 300 $aSmall portions of this book appeared previously in The social live of small urban spaces, by William H. Whyte, published by the Conservation Foundation, Washington, D.C. 311 $a0-8122-2074-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [367]-377) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tForeword -- $t1. Introduction -- $t2. The Social Life of the Streets -- $t3. Street People -- $t4. The Skilled Pedestrian -- $t5. The Physical Street -- $t6. The Sensory Street -- $t7. The Design of Spaces -- $t8. Water, Wind, Trees, and Light -- $t9. The Management of Spaces -- $t10. The Undesirables -- $t11. Carrying Capacity -- $t12. Steps and Entrances -- $t13. Concourses and Skyways -- $t14. Megastructures -- $t15. Blank Walls -- $t16. The Rise and Fall of Incentive Zoning -- $t17. Sun and Shadow -- $t18. Bounce Light -- $t19. Sun Easements -- $t20. The Corporate Exodus -- $t21. The Semi-Cities -- $t22. How to Dullify Downtown -- $t23. Tightening Up -- $t24. The Case for Gentrification -- $t25. Return to the Agora -- $tAppendix A. Digest of Open-Space Zoning Provisions in New York City -- $tAppendix B. Mandating of Retailing at Street Level -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aNamed 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. 606 $aCities and towns 606 $aCity and town life 606 $aCity planning 606 $aSociology, Urban 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCities and towns. 615 0$aCity and town life. 615 0$aCity planning. 615 0$aSociology, Urban. 676 $a307.7/6 686 $aMS 1750$2rvk 700 $aWhyte$b William Hollingsworth$0234573 701 $aUnderhill$b Paco$0594573 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452686403321 996 $aCity$92477780 997 $aUNINA