American urbanist : how William H. Whyte's unconventional wisdom reshaped public life
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American urbanist : how William H. Whyte's unconventional wisdom reshaped public life
Island Press, c2022
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-304) and index
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内容説明
“A marvelous new biography.” -The New York Times
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, The Organization Man, catapulted the dangers of “groupthink” and conformity into the national consciousness.
Over his five decades of research and writing, Holly’s wide-ranging work changed how people thought about careers
and companies, cities and suburbs, urban planning, open space preservation, and more. He was part of the rising
environmental movement, helped spur change at the planning office of New York City, and narrated two films about urban life, in addition to writing six books. No matter the topic, Holly advocated for the decisionmakers to be people, not
just experts.
“We need the kind of curiosity that blows the lid off everything,” Holly once said. His life offers encouragement to be
thoughtful and bold in asking questions and making space for differing viewpoints. This revealing biography offers a rare
glimpse into the mind of an iconoclast whose healthy skepticism of the status quo can help guide our efforts to create the
kinds of places we want to live in today.
目次
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: A Man of Many Missions
Chapter 1: The Cast of Characters, from White to Whyte
Chapter 2: Princeton—from Rower to Writer
Chapter 3: Vicks and the Marines—Information to Intelligence
Chapter 4: Fortune Magazine—the Foundation for a Career
Chapter 5: Is Anybody Listening?—the High Cost of Harmony and Groupthink
Chapter 6: The Organization Man—More than an Epithet
Chapter 7: The Exploding Metropolis—Discovering Jane Jacobs
Chapter 8: With Laurance Rockefeller, Conservationist Turned Environmentalist
Chapter 9: Preserving the Last Landscape, Rural and Urban
Chapter 10: Organization Man to Family Man
Chapter 11: From Men in Suits, a Radical Plan for New York City
Chapter 12: Preservation Tactics in the Urban Landscape
Chapter 13: The Art of Small Urban Spaces
Chapter 14: From Small Spaces to the City: Rediscovering the Center
Chapter 15: Revisiting the Organization Man—and Woman
Chapter 16: Applying Urban Principles in Suburban Places
Chapter 17: The Final Years
Chapter 18: Whyte in the Twenty-First Century—the Urban Imperative
Chapter 19: Whyte in the Twenty-First Century—Battling the Status Quo
Afterword: Taking Cues from Whyte’s Way
Acknowledgments
Bibliographic Notes
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