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The Essential William H. Whyte / Edition 2

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ISBN-10:: 0823220257
ISBN-13:: 9780823220250
Pub. Date:: 01/01/2000
Publisher:: Fordham University Press

ISBN-10:: 0823220257
ISBN-13:: 9780823220250
Pub. Date:: 01/01/2000
Publisher:: Fordham University Press

The Essential William H. Whyte / Edition 2

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Overview

The Essential William H. Whyte offers the core writings of a great observer of the postwar American scene. Included are selections from The Organization Man, Securing Space for Urban America: Conservation Easements, The Last Landscape, The Social Life of Urban Spaces, and City: Rediscovering the Center, as well as many of Whyte's articles from Fortune Magazine.

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ISBN-13:	9780823220250
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	01/01/2000
Edition description:	2
Pages:	383
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Albert LaFarge was raised in New York City, where he has worked as a book editor since 1985.

	Foreword	vii
	Preface and Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	xi
	The Rise of Organization Man	1
	The Class of '49	3
	The Transients	15
	How the New Suburbia Socializes	31
	The Fallacies of "Personality" Testing	43
	"Give the Devils No Mercy"	67
	from The Organization Man (1956)	75
	Introduction	76
	A Generation of Bureaucrats	81
	The Fight Against Genius	86
	Conclusion	94
	The Case for the Universal Card	103
	You, Too, Can Write the Casual Style	109
	How to Back into a Fortune Story	115
	The Exploding Metropolis	121
	Urban Sprawl	123
	from Securing Open Space for Urban America: Conservation Easements (1959)	141
	Foreword	141
	The Precedents	145
	The Public Purpose	150
	from The Last Landscape (1968)	159
	Easements	159
	Cluster Development	179
	The New Towns	201
	The Case for Crowding	217
	The Living Street	225
	New York and Tokyo: A Study in Crowding	227
	from The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (1980)	247
	Introduction	247
	The Life of Plazas	252
	Indoor Spaces	259
	Smaller Cities and Places	266
	from City: Rediscovering the Center (1988)	269
	Street People	269
	The Sensory Street	296
	The Undesirables	310
	Blank Walls	317
	The Corporate Exodus	324
	The Case for Gentrification	335
	Appendices	341
Appendix A	From the California Easement Act, 1959	343
Appendix B	Sample Scenic Easement Deed, State of California, 1946	345
Appendix C	Digest of Open-Space Zoning Provisions, New York City, 1975	349
Appendix D	Affidavit of William H. Whyte in Turley v. New York City Police Dept., 1994	355
	Notes	361
	Selected Works	371
	Permissions Acknowledgments	373
	Index	375

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Whyte was, essentially, a scientist of the street—one of the first, which is amazing when you think of how long streets existed before he came along. His work has been used to make public spaces better and more useful to citizens, which in turn has made cities better.”——Paco Underhill, author of Why We Buy

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Whyte was, essentially, a scientist of the street—one of the first, which is amazing when you think of how long streets existed before he came along. His work has been used to make public spaces better and more useful to citizens, which in turn has made cities better.

author of Why We Buy - Paco Underhill

Reading The Essential William H. Whyte restores faith that change can be understood, and that the ever-quickening pace of change can, sometimes, even be directed or controlled.
—The New York Times Book Review

Douglas A. Sylva

The Essential William H. Whyte / Edition 2

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