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Author | : William H. Whyte |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2012-09-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 081220834X |
Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "Fifty Books for Our Time." For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior, and city dynamics. City: Rediscovering the Center is the result of that research, a humane, often amusing view of what is staggeringly obvious about the urban environment but seemingly invisible to those responsible for planning it. Whyte uses time-lapse photography to chart the anatomy of metropolitan congestion. Why is traffic so badly distributed on city streets? Why do New Yorkers walk so fast—and jaywalk so incorrigibly? Why aren't there more collisions on the busiest walkways? Why do people who stop to talk gravitate to the center of the pedestrian traffic stream? Why do places designed primarily for security actually worsen it? Why are public restrooms disappearing? "The city is full of vexations," Whyte avers: "Steps too steep; doors too tough to open; ledges you cannot sit on. . . . It is difficult to design an urban space so maladroitly that people will not use it, but there are many such spaces." Yet Whyte finds encouragement in the widespread rediscovery of the city center. The future is not in the suburbs, he believes, but in that center. Like a Greek agora, the city must reassert its most ancient function as a place where people come together face-to-face.
Author | : Wallace Stanley Sayre |
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Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Civil service |
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Author | : Meer Abramovich Messel' |
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Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Emergency medical services |
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Author | : Minneapolis (Minn.) |
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Total Pages | : 830 |
Release | : 1898 |
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Author | : Andrew Forrester |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2022-06-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
"Secret Service; or, Recollections of a City Detective" is a book by Andrew Forrester which focuses on the recollection of events and stories of s secret detective service. This book contains amazing detective stories some of which include My Great Electioneering Trick, Mistaken identity, An unscrupulous woman, and others. It covers a detailed description of incidences, the ordeals, challenges faced, and ultimately result.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Post Roads. Subcommittee No. 1 |
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Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Letter carriers |
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Author | : Frances L. Reinhold |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1512806099 |
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author | : Massachusetts. Dept. of Labor and Industries. Division of Statistics |
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Total Pages | : 1110 |
Release | : 1914 |
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Author | : Ms. Riya Ghosh, Dr Dipamitra |
Publisher | : Archers & Elevators Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 939099666X |
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Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1979 |
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