Social Life Of Small Urban Spaces

Revisiting the social life of small urban spaces.
Social life of small urban spaces. 1980 directed by william h. Openness to the street and the theater of the street is huge. Whyte s groundbreaking methodology of simple direct observation revealed an extraordinary diversity of activity and numerous surprises about how humans use public space. Directed by william h.
Their findings were eventually collected in the social life of small urban spaces public library in 1980 and synthesized in a 55 minute companion film which you can watch below for some remarkably counterintuitive insights on the living fabric of the city. Those are the questions that drove william whyte to study public spaces as captured in the film the social life of small urban spaces 1980. The data was used to generate heat. This highly influential film in architecture and planning circles by william h.
Both the book and the accompanying film were instantly labeled classics and launched a mini revolution in the planning and study of public spaces. People don t flock to empty spaces as refuge from busy city life. This kind of information allows us to reevaluate the dominant forms of new urban space the firm behind plaza life revisited used machine learning to identify and sort objects and people over a week long observation period. Social life of small urban spaces.
Beginning at new york s seagram plaza one of the most used open areas in the city the film proceeds to analyze why this space is so popular and. People go to places where there are other people. Whyte published the findings from his revolutionary street life project in the social life of small urban spaces. This witty and original film is about the open spaces of cities and why some of them work for people while others don t.