The Essential William H. Whyte,9780823220267

The Essential William H. Whyte

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ISBN13: 9780823220267
ISBN10: 0823220265
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-01-01
Publisher(s): Fordham University Press
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Summary

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, Securing Space for Urban America: Conservation Easements, The Last Landscape, The Social Life of Urban Spaces, and City: Rediscovering the Center, as well as many of Whyte's articles from Fortune Magazine.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Paul Goldberger
Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
The Rise of Organization Man
1(120)
The Class of '49
3(12)
The Transients
15(16)
How the New Suburbia Socializes
31(12)
The Fallacies of ``Personality'' Testing
43(24)
``Give the Devils No Mercy''
67(8)
From The Organization Man (1956)
75(28)
Introduction
76(5)
A Generation of Bureaucrats
81(5)
The Fight Against Genius
86(8)
Conclusion
94(9)
The Case for the Universal Card
103(6)
You, Too, Can Write the Casual Style
109(6)
How to Back into a Fortune Story
115(6)
The Exploding Metropolis
121(104)
Urban Sprawl
123(18)
From Securing Open Space for Urban America: Conservation Easements (1959)
141(18)
Foreword
141(4)
The Precedents
145(5)
The Public Purpose
150(9)
From The Last Landscape (1968)
159(66)
Easements
159(20)
Cluster Development
179(22)
The New Towns
201(16)
The Case for Crowding
217(8)
The Living Street
225(116)
New York and Tokyo: A Study in Crowding
227(20)
From the Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (1980)
247(22)
Introduction
247(5)
The Life of Plazas
252(7)
Indoor Spaces
259(7)
Smaller Cities and Places
266(3)
From City: Rediscovering the Center (1988)
269(72)
Street People
269(27)
The Sensory Street
296(14)
The Undesirables
310(7)
Blank Walls
317(7)
The Corporate Exodus
324(11)
The Case for Gentrification
335(6)
Appendices 341(20)
Appendix A: From the California Easement Act, 1959
343(2)
Appendix B: Sample Scenic Easement Deed, State of California 1946
345(4)
Appendix C: Digest of Open-Space Zoning Provisions, New York City, 1975
349(6)
Appendix D: Affidavit of William H. Whyte in Turley v. New York City Police Dept., 1994
355(6)
Notes 361(10)
Selected Works by William H. Whyte 371(2)
Permissions Acknowledgments 373(2)
Index 375

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