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The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces William H. Whyte
Publisher: Project for Public Spaces Inc

Whyte published the findings from his revolutionary Street Life Project in The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Whyte's witty and original film about the open spaces of cities and why some of them work for people while others do not. The methodology of the book is documentary, but it carries with it an agenda and exhortation for the enrichment of the spaces themselves. The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Social Life of Small Urban Spaces – The Street Corner (William H. (via an article by Kio Stark over at the The Atlantic). The most used plazas tend to have a higher proportion of people in. I saw this 2 or 6 times in college, and finally came across a streaming version over at the wonderful swissmiss. This video was produced by William H. Whyte to accompany his book of the same name. Whyte's text reviews urban environments from a perspective of design. Tantilisingly short excerpt from a documentary about human behavior within urban spaces. Description: With this companion film to his 1980 book of the same name, sociologist William H. I was actually very happy to find this video online. I think it is a resource that every designer should take a look at, and is as true today as when it was made. Posted on March 20, 2012 by Brian.