The Essential William H. Whyte - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Essential William H. Whyte write by William Hollingsworth Whyte. This book was released on 2020-07-01. The Essential William H. Whyte available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 (1956), Securing Space for Urban America: Conservation Easements (1959), The Last Landscape (1968), The Social Life of Urban Spaces (1980), and City: Rediscovering the Center (1988), as well as many of Whyte's articles from Fortune magazine.
The Essential William H. Whyte
The Essential William H. Whyte - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Essential William H. Whyte write by Albert Lafarge. This book was released on 2000. The Essential William H. Whyte available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
City
City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook City write by William H. Whyte. This book was released on 2012-09-10. City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "Fifty Books for Our Time." 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. City: Rediscovering the Center 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. 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.
The Organization Man
The Organization Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Organization Man write by William H. Whyte. This book was released on 2013-05-31. The Organization Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Regarded as one of the most important sociological and business commentaries of modern times, The Organization Man developed the first thorough description of the impact of mass organization on American society. During the height of the Eisenhower administration, corporations appeared to provide a blissful answer to postwar life with the marketing of new technologies—television, affordable cars, space travel, fast food—and lifestyles, such as carefully planned suburban communities centered around the nuclear family. William H. Whyte found this phenomenon alarming. As an editor for Fortune magazine, Whyte was well placed to observe corporate America; it became clear to him that the American belief in the perfectibility of society was shifting from one of individual initiative to one that could be achieved at the expense of the individual. With its clear analysis of contemporary working and living arrangements, The Organization Man rapidly achieved bestseller status. Since the time of the book's original publication, the American workplace has undergone massive changes. In the 1990s, the rule of large corporations seemed less relevant as small entrepreneurs made fortunes from new technologies, in the process bucking old corporate trends. In fact this "new economy" appeared to have doomed Whyte's original analysis as an artifact from a bygone day. But the recent collapse of so many startup businesses, gigantic mergers of international conglomerates, and the reality of economic globalization make The Organization Man all the more essential as background for understanding today's global market. This edition contains a new foreword by noted journalist and author Joseph Nocera. In an afterword Jenny Bell Whyte describes how The Organization Man was written.
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces write by William Hollingsworth Whyte. This book was released on 2001. The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Social Life Of Small Urban Spaces.
