{"product_id":"city-rediscovering-the-center-paperback-softback-9780812220742","title":"City; Rediscovering the Center (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812220742","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRediscovering the Center\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWilliam H. Whyte (Author), Paco Underhill (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812220742\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 September 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e408 pages, 95 illus.\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 3.2 cm, 0.76 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNamed by \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e magazine to its list of \"Fifty Books for Our Time.\"\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword, by Paco Underhill\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Social Life of the Street\u003cbr\u003e 3. Street People\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Skilled Pedestrian\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Physical Street\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Sensory Street\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Design of Spaces\u003cbr\u003e 8. Water, Wind, Trees, and Light\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Management of Spaces\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Undesirables\u003cbr\u003e 11. Carrying Capacity\u003cbr\u003e 12. Steps and Entrances\u003cbr\u003e 13. Concourses and Skyways\u003cbr\u003e 14. Megastructures\u003cbr\u003e 15. Blank Walls\u003cbr\u003e 16. The Rise and Fall of Incentive Zoning\u003cbr\u003e 17. Sun and Shadow\u003cbr\u003e 18. Bounce Light\u003cbr\u003e 19. Sun Easements\u003cbr\u003e 20. The Corporate Exodus\u003cbr\u003e 21. The Semi-Cities\u003cbr\u003e 22. How to Dullify Downtown\u003cbr\u003e 23. Tightening Up\u003cbr\u003e 24. The Case for Gentrification\u003cbr\u003e 25. Return to the Agora\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e A. Digest of Open-Space Zoning Provisions in New York City\u003cbr\u003e B. Mandating of Retailing at Street Level\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681333801240,"sku":"9780812220742","price":28.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/city-rediscovering-the-center-paperback-softback-9780812220742","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}