William “Holly” Whyte in His Own Words, “The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces” (1980)

When I first got started making NYC bike advocacy and car-free streets videos back in the late-1990s on cable tv, I didn’t know who William “Holly“ Whyte was or just how important his work and research played in shaping in New York City. A few years later I made more friends in the livable streets world and met Fred & Ethan Kent at Project for Public Spaces. I got a copy of “The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces“ (1980) which in its marvelously-written, straight-forward way is the one book all burgeoning ur