The Essential William H. Whyte [Hardcover]

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 Whytes articles from Fortune Magazine.Whyte was, essentially, a scientist of the streetone of the first, which is amazing when you think of how long streets existed before he came along. His work has been used to make public spaces better and more useful to citizens, which in turn has made cities better.LaFarge has pulled together a first rate collection of modern American social criticism.