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The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

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William H. Whyte
Project for Public Spaces Inc
2001-3-1
125
USD 35.00
Paperback
9780970632418

圖書標籤: 城市規劃  城市  城市設計  公共空間  建築  urban  社會  景觀設計   


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The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024



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In 1980, William H. Whyte published the findings from his revolutionary Street Life Project in The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Both the book and the accompanying film were instantly labeled classics, and launched a mini-revolution in the planning and study of public spaces. They have since become standard texts, and appear on syllabi and reading lists in urban planning, sociology, environmental design, and architecture departments around the world.

Project for Public Spaces, which grew out of Holly’s Street Life Project and continues his work around the world, has acquired the reprint rights to Social Life, with the intent of making it available to the widest possible audience and ensuring that the Whyte family receive their fair share of Holly’s legacy.

Summary: This book is great

Rating: 5

I read this book for school... but I would recommend it to anyone interested in the subject matter. (Reading it, I was always wandering around talking to friends and family about it). The book is short, but there is a lot to think about. :)

Summary: How urban areas work

Rating: 5

Years ago I watched an episode of NOVA on PBS on William H. Whyte that explained the background and purpose and accomplishments of his project to study what makes urban spaces in cities work. I sat there riveted, as he methodically and carefully unveiled a vast range of urban phenomena of which I had hitherto been unaware.

The background to his study was this: following the enormous success of the plaza of Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building in New York in the mid-1950s, the city began to give tax breaks to new buildings that included plazas as part of their design. At the Seagram, people found in the heart of the city a marvelous space in which to congregate, to eat lunch, to sit and talk, and just enjoy a few minutes away from the office. While the idea of providing an incentive to new plaza development was unquestionably a great aim, a small problem developed: many of the new plazas were, unlike that of the Seagram, just dreadful. Cold, austere, people unfriendly, unwelcoming, many of them seemed designed more to keep people away than give them a place to enjoy themselves. This is where Whyte comes in. New York City was concerned with codifying what made a successful plaza, and giving tax breaks based more on the kind of plaza being built, rather than any kind of plaza at all. So, Whyte was charged with discovering precisely what goes into a successful urban space. The results of his exhaustive study are summed up in this brilliant monograph.

Whyte took cameras and began filming all kinds of urban spots in plazas and parks, and on regular sidewalks. As a result of this study, he was able first to analyze how urban spaces work, and secondly on the basis of this make, to make suggestions as to how to make successful spaces. He discusses the enormous value and utility of using fountains or falling water both to provide aesthetic benefits and to create a barrier of white noise between an urban space and the street. He shows the value of having a variety of steps and levels in providing fun places to sit. He allays the fears of those who are afraid that a plaza will attract undesirables by showing that the homeless tend to go where other people are not. He displays the patterns of traffic on sidewalks and the function that street food can play. Whyte comes across not merely as a sophisticated urban planner and social scientist: he is revealed as a visionary.

I think that this ought to be a must-read for anyone with any curiosity about cities and the potential they possess for a vibrant and exciting social life. Here in my own city of Chicago, I constantly lament that Whyte's lessons go unheeded and unlearned. We Chicagoans take pride in how clean our downtown area is, but we possess very, very few plazas, instead having virtually all of our buildings coming all the way to the edge of the sidewalk. I lament that there are so few places in the Loop and the near North to sit at lunch, that so very, very little has been done along the river to make it people friendly, and that there are so few places to congregate. We have a gorgeous, inpirational skyline, but on the sidewalk level, things are different. I wish our city planners had more of Whyte's view of things.

Summary: A classic case study for urban design professionals

Rating: 5

Although the photographs are dated, the material is classic. This book is a must for anyone who is involved with design or review of open spaces. It shows how people use open space and identifies the common elements of successful spaces. While the elements all seem logical, the book shows how we often fly in the face of logic when using these spaces. The book focuses primarily on plazas and small parks in New York City, but includes a section for smaller cities with low rise buildings. The information can also be applied to parks in any size town. This book is a facinating case study in social ecology.

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著者簡介

威廉·H·懷特 William H. Whyte (1917-1999),《財富》雜誌編輯,美國關於城市、人與開放空間領域最有影響力的評論傢。通過他的著作,特彆是《有組織的人》《最後的景觀》和《小城市空間的社會生活》,威廉•懷特教育瞭一代城市規劃者和設計師,應該把城市看作 是人的居住地,而不是簡單地作為經濟機器、交通節點或巨大的建築展示平颱。


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對這種把非常軟的話題研究的透徹清晰不失生動的作品真是膜拜頂禮。雖然比較老瞭,無論是研究方法還是一些內容有一點老,但是很多觀點依然很有前瞻性,關鍵是書很薄又很好看!而且感覺即使是非專業人員,也可以從中找到一種新的理解自己生活的方式。經典的魅力大概就是這種寬宏而執著的專業精神。

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算是對《美國大城市的死與生》的一點點擴展吧。通過量8000人/小時而不擁堵的門給我留下瞭深刻印象,作者在結尾時還附瞭一個延時攝影的教程

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對城市設計來說聖經一樣的書啊~十年研究磨齣一個薄本

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好玩好玩 人性化探討 記錄方式也好 看的突然想去美國 對熱鬧的有陽光樹蔭的生活偶爾也有嚮往

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對城市設計來說聖經一樣的書啊~十年研究磨齣一個薄本

讀後感

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Whyte, W. H. (1980). The social life of small urban spaces. Washington, DC: The Conservation Foundation William Hollingsworth Whyte (1917 - 1999) was an American urbanist, organizational analyst, and journalist. Before the book The Social Life of Small Ur...  

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“为什么有些城市空间很人性化,有些城市空间不那么人性化?”怀特及“街头生活项目组”花了十年的时间研究这个问题,并将他们的研究成果落实到了纽约分区规划条例中,并通过空间奖励的形式促进实施。(引言) 广场生活是城市生活最重要的一部分,人们结伴来到广场闲谈交流,或...  

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“为什么有些城市空间很人性化,有些城市空间不那么人性化?”怀特及“街头生活项目组”花了十年的时间研究这个问题,并将他们的研究成果落实到了纽约分区规划条例中,并通过空间奖励的形式促进实施。(引言) 广场生活是城市生活最重要的一部分,人们结伴来到广场闲谈交流,或...  

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“为什么有些城市空间很人性化,有些城市空间不那么人性化?”怀特及“街头生活项目组”花了十年的时间研究这个问题,并将他们的研究成果落实到了纽约分区规划条例中,并通过空间奖励的形式促进实施。(引言) 广场生活是城市生活最重要的一部分,人们结伴来到广场闲谈交流,或...  

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