The Essential William H. Whyte

by LaFarge, Albert

• ISBN13: 9780823220267
• ISBN10: 0823220265
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Fordham University Press

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