American Urbanist How William H Whytes Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life Richard K Rein by Richard K. Rein 9781642831719, 1642831719, a3b4b888-5593-4881-aa10-c894f5151acb, A3B4B888-5593-4881-AA10-C894F5151ACB instant download after payment.

On an otherwise normal weekday in the 1980s, commuters on busy Route 1 in central New Jersey noticed an alarming sight: a man in a suit and tie dashing across four lanes of traffic, then scurrying through a narrow underpass as cars whizzed by within inches. The man was William "Holly" Whyte, a pioneer of people-centered urban design. Decades before this perilous trek to a meeting in the suburbs, he had urged planners to look beyond their desks and drawings: "You have to get out and walk."
American Urbanist shares the life and wisdom of a man whose advocacy reshaped many of the places we know and love today—from New York's bustling Bryant Park to preserved forests and farmlands around the country. Holly's experiences as a WWII intelligence officer and leader of the genre-defining reporters at Fortune Magazine in the 1950s shaped his razor-sharp assessments of how the world actually worked—not how it was assumed to work. His 1956 bestseller,...