The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces ebook

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces by William H. Whyte

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces William H. Whyte ebook
Format: pdf
ISBN: 097063241X, 9780970632418
Page: 0
Publisher: Project for Public Spaces Inc

An hour-long video looking at use of small urban spaces. This entry was posted in Landscape and tagged Urbanscape, User Behavior by Pratik. Where is this – and why doesn't it work very well as a public space? Tantilisingly short excerpt from a documentary about human behavior within urban spaces. Price Points: The social life of a small urban space. Yesterday, while reading some new forum posts at AbsoluteDSM.com, I came across a post where someone had found a link to an old video about the study of social life in small urban spaces. Whyte, 1988, 58'), a companion to Whyte's book. People tend to sit where there are places to sit. The title says “small urban spaces”, but notice how wide the sidewalks are, the fact that there is a plaza, a water feature, places to sit as well as to stand. The most used plazas tend to have a higher proportion of people in. Via Jason Kottke, I just watched this terrific doc, THE SOCIAL LIFE OF URBAN SPACES (William H.