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The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces by William H. Whyte

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces William H. Whyte ebook
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Format: pdf
ISBN: 097063241X, 9780970632418
Publisher: Project for Public Spaces Inc

Description: With this companion film to his 1980 book of the same name, sociologist William H. The methodology of the book is documentary, but it carries with it an agenda and exhortation for the enrichment of the spaces themselves. 27 February 2012; general / technifiling · Leave a comment · audubon. The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. The first ten minutes of the video from the Project on Public Spaces is on YouTube. Youtube Teaches Me Something about Writing: The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Just watch … all about space you ever desired – or not – to know. Whyte studied urban environments using movie cameras, recorded observations, and interviews in an attempt to understand how people actually use outdoor spaces such as plazas, sidewalks, and street corners. This is one of my favorite documentaries. Httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0TYY7jflz8. Posted on March 20, 2012 by Brian. May 29, 2009 in case studies, events, patterns. Whyte's text reviews urban environments from a perspective of design. So what makes some urban spaces fail while others succeed? Whyte's influential work from the 1980s, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, is a brilliant study of human behaviour and the use of public space. We've all seen empty public spaces before. Whyte's Social Life of Small Urban Spaces was available online.