{"product_id":"city-rediscovering-the-center-paperback","title":"City: Rediscovering the Center - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam H. Whyte\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePaco Underhill\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCity Rediscovering the Center William H. Whyte. Foreword by Paco Underhill \"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.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eCity\u003c\/i\u003e punctures commonplace assumptions about urban life in virtually every chapter. . . . There is genuine brilliance here.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eCity\u003c\/i\u003e is written in clear, straightforward, and vivid prose. . . . Whyte bubbles over with data. . . . He is an authentic visionary.\"--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \"Whyte's Street Life Project studied the use of urban spaces for 16 years. This follow-up to \u003ci\u003eThe Social Life of Small Urban Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e Named by \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eCity: Rediscovering the Center\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cb\u003eWilliam H. Whyte\u003c\/b\u003e (1917-1999), author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eOrganization Man\u003c\/i\u003e, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, was born in Pennsylvania and educated at Princeton. \u003cb\u003ePaco Underhill\u003c\/b\u003e, founder, CEO, and president of Envirosell, is the author of \u003ci\u003eWhy We Buy: The Science of Shopping\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCall of the Mall: The Geography of Shopping\u003c\/i\u003e. 2009 408 pages 7 x 10 95 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-2074-2 Paper $24.95s  16.50 ISBN 978-0-8122-0834-4 Ebook $24.95s  16.50 World Rights Sociology Short copy: In a challenging and provocative book, William Whyte, author of the classic \u003ci\u003eThe Organization Man\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam H. Whyte (1917-1999), author of the bestselling Organization Man, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, was born in Pennsylvania and educated at Princeton. Paco Underhill, founder, CEO, and president of Envirosell, is the author of Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping and Call of the Mall: The Geography of Shopping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 408\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 10 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 22, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47354267992313,"sku":"9780812220742","price":53.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/d0FVbldOdDkwZ3VmVWxSeUIzNkJodz09.webp?v=1769833412","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/city-rediscovering-the-center-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}