William Holly Whyte in His Own Words, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (1980)

When I first got started making NYC bike advocacy and carfree streets videos back in the late1990s on cable tv, I didn t know who William Holly Whyte was or just how important his work and research played in shaping in New York City. A few years later I made more friends in the livable streets world and met Fred Ethan Kent at Project for Public Spaces. I got a copy of The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (1980) which in its marvelouslywritten, straightforward way is the one book all burgeoning ur br, br,