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

Whyte's text reviews urban environments from a perspective of design. Posted on March 20, 2012 by Brian. We watched this film in Jana Cephas' “The Subject and the City” course the other week and it's been sticking in my head. 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. Whyte: The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces – The Street Corner from MAS on Vimeo. Classic, and strangely familiar if you work in product, or skateboard. The associated books, City: Rediscovering the Center and the Social Life of Small Urban Spaces are masterpieces in the study of social interaction in specific locations. Whyte's film “The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces” is an urban planning classic. This video was produced by 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. Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Posted on 29 Jul 2012 at 12:29 pm by Sean Flannagan under Analysis, Curiosities. Description: With this companion film to his 1980 book of the same name, sociologist William H. Whyte's influential work from the 1980s, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, is a brilliant study of human behaviour and the use of public space.