City : : Rediscovering the Center / / William H. Whyte.

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• VerfasserIn: Whyte, William H.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Underhill, Paco.
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 95 illus.

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Foreword
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Social Life of the Streets
• 3. Street People
• 4. The Skilled Pedestrian
• 5. The Physical Street
• 6. The Sensory Street
• 7. The Design of Spaces
• 8. Water, Wind, Trees, and Light
• 9. The Management of Spaces
• 10. The Undesirables
• 11. Carrying Capacity
• 12. Steps and Entrances
• 13. Concourses and Skyways
• 14. Megastructures
• 15. Blank Walls
• 16. The Rise and Fall of Incentive Zoning
• 17. Sun and Shadow
• 18. Bounce Light
• 19. Sun Easements
• 20. The Corporate Exodus
• 21. The Semi-Cities
• 22. How to Dullify Downtown
• 23. Tightening Up
• 24. The Case for Gentrification
• 25. Return to the Agora
• Appendix A. Digest of Open-Space Zoning Provisions in New York City
• Appendix B. Mandating of Retailing at Street Level
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Acknowledgments