The Essential William H. Whyte

William H. Whyte Rose To Prominence In The Early 1950s As A Writer At Fortune During That Magazine's Heyday With A Series Of Articles On America's Corporate Culture. His Research Eventually Culminated In The Publication Of The Organization Man (1956), A Controversial Bestseller That Established Whyte As A Leading Voice In The Debate Over The Social Changes Beginning To Affect Postwar America. Over The Course Of The Following Three Decades, Whyte Led The Charge To Preserve What Was Best In America's Great Cities In The Face Of An Increasingly Suburbanized Culture Oriented Toward The Automobile. Whyte's Fascination With Cities Led To The Creation Of The Street Life Project, A Ten-year Study Of The Dynamics Of How People Interact With The Urban Environment. The Crowning Achievement Of Whyte's Career Came With The Publication Of City: Rediscovering The Center (1988). In These Pages Whyte Distilled The Results Of His Extensive Empirical Research Into A Celebration Of Why People Are Naturally Drawn To The Vibrant Center Of A City And What Planners Can Do To Encourage A Healthy Relationship Between Citizen And City. The Essential William H. Whyte Offers The Core Writings Of A Great Observer Of The Postwar American Scene.--jacket. Foreword / Paul Goldberger -- The Rise Of Organization Man -- The Class Of '49 -- The Transients -- How The New Suburbia Socializes -- The Fallacies Of Personality Testing -- Give The Devils No Mercy -- From The Organization Man (1956) -- A Generation Of Bureaucrats -- The Fight Against Genius -- The Case For The Universal Card -- You, Too, Can Write The Casual Style -- How To Back Into A Fortune Story -- The Exploding Metropolis -- Urban Sprawl -- From Securing Open Space For Urban America: Conservation Easements (1959) -- The Precedents -- The Public Purpose -- From The Last Landscape (1968) -- Easements -- Cluster Development -- The New Towns -- The Case For Crowding -- The Living Street -- New York And Tokyo: A Study In Crowding -- From The Social Life Of Small Urban Spaces (1980) -- The Life Of Plazas -- Indoor Spaces -- Smaller Cities And Places -- From City: Rediscovering The Center (1988) -- Street People -- The Sensory Street -- The Undesirables -- Blank Walls -- The Corporate Exodus -- The Case For Gentrification -- From The California Easement Act, 1959 -- Sample Scenic Easement Deed, State Of California, 1946 -- Digest Of Open-space Zoning Provisions, New York City, 1975 -- Affidavit Of William H. Whyte In Turley V. New York City Police Dept., 1994 -- Selected Works / William H. Whyte. William H. Whyte ; Edited By Albert Lafarge. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.