American Urbanist How William H Whyte's Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life by Richard K Rein
epub | 3.37 MB | English | Isbn: 1642831700 | Author: Richard K. Rein | Year: 2022
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On an otherwise normal weekday in the 1980s, commuters on busy Route 1 in central New Jersey noticed an alarming sight: a man in a suit and tie dashing across four lanes of traffic, then scurrying through a narrow underpass as cars whizzed by within inches. The man was William "Holly" Whyte, a pioneer of people-centered urban design. Decades before this perilous trek to a meeting in the suburbs, he had urged planners to look beyond their desks and drawings: "You have to get out and walk." American Urbanist shares the life and wisdom of a man whose advocacy reshaped many of the places we know and love today—from New York's bustling Bryant Park to preserved forests and farmlands around the country. Holly's experiences as a WWII intelligence officer and leader of the genre-defining reporters at Fortune Magazine in the 1950s shaped his razor-sharp assessments of how the world actually worked—not how it was assumed to work. His 1956 bestseller, The...
Category:Urban & Land Use Planning, Biographies of Social Scientists & Psychologists, Psychologist Biographies
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