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The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces William H. Whyte
Publisher: Project for Public Spaces Inc

New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday. The most used plazas tend to have a higher proportion of people in. This entry was posted in Landscape and tagged Urbanscape, User Behavior by Pratik. William Holly Whyte, in his analytical study The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, warns against the inevitable sunken nature of the square linking tunnels to street level, creating a fishbowl effect. An hour-long video looking at use of small urban spaces. Source: TIME-SAVER STANDARDS for URBAN DESIGNWilliam H. (1998) City: Rediscovering the Centre. People tend to sit where there are places to sit. Whyte: The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces – The Street Corner the public spaces of the city. The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. (1980) 'The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces', in Orum, A. Posted on 21/01/2011 by Urban Choreography. Tantilisingly short excerpt from a documentary about human behavior within urban spaces. A still from Whyte's Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (1988).