William E Whyte

The Last Landscape

The remaining corner of an old farm, unclaimed by developers. The brook squeezed between housing plans. Abandoned railroad lines. The stand of woods along an expanded highway. These are the outposts of what was once a larger pattern of forests and farms, the "last landscape." According to William H....

Making Mondragón: The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex (Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Reports)

Since its founding in 1956 in Spain's Basque region, the Mondragón Corporation has been a touchstone for the international cooperative movement. Its nearly three hundred companies and organizations span areas from finance to education. In its industrial sector Mondragón has had a rich experience ove...

An American Rhetoric

W.W. Watt's An American Rhetoric has been for years, edition after edition, far and away the best book in the field. In my early teaching years I used it...in freshman composition courses - always after carefully examining supposedly competitive books...Used slowly and carefully, as in a composition...

The Essential William H. Whyte

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 Cen...

Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum

Street Corner Society is one of a handful of works that can justifiably be called classics of sociological research. William Foote Whyte's account of the Italian American slum he called "Cornerville"—Boston's North End—has been the model for urban ethnography for fifty years.By mapping the intricate...

The Organization Man

Regarded as one of the most important sociological and business commentaries of modern times, The Organization Man developed the first thorough description of the impact of mass organization on American society. During the height of the Eisenhower administration, corporations appeared to provide a b...

City: Rediscovering the Center

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 dyna...

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

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 ...

William H. Whyte

William Hollingsworth "Holly" Whyte (October 1, 1917 12 January 1999) was an American urbanist, organizational analyst, journalist and people-watcher.

Oxford Jackson: Architecture, Education, Status, And Style 1835-1924

The City As Dwelling: Walking, Sitting, Shaping

The Exploding Metropolis

City: Rediscovering the Center

City : Rediscovering the Center

The WPA Guide to New York City

The Last Landscape

A Time of War: Remembering Guadalcanal, a Battle Without Maps