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Blank Wall is on its way to becoming the dominant feature of many United States downtowns," complains William H. Whyte, one of America's most astute observers of the urban scene. Without windows or adornment to relieve their monotony, the walls are built of concrete, brick, granite, metal veneer, opaque glass and mirrors. They cover up department stores and shopping malls, offices and civic buildings, convention centers and hotels. Designed out of fear-fear of the untidy hustle and bustle of city streets and "undesirables"-the walls spread fear. By eliminating the hospitable jumble of shop fronts, restaurant entrances...
...Whyte, 65, has long been concerned with the real life of cities as opposed to the conventional urban wisdom of planners and architects. A former Fortune editor, he belongs to a small band of journalists who have alerted laymen to the folly of the two extreme approaches to the hearts of our cities: neglect and cataclysmic "renewal." Among Whyte's allies are Grady Clay, formerly of the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, now editor of Landscape Architecture magazine, and Jane Jacobs, who is teaching at Toronto. In the 1958 anthology The Exploding Metropolis, Jacobs wrote, "The point. . . is to work...
Although the tide has turned and bankers and developers are again investing in downtown, the shiny new megastructures of the '70s and '80s are often still as destructive of its "remarkable intricacy and liveliness" as the bulldozers of the '50s and '60s. Whyte first noticed the proliferation of blank walls when, some years ago, he studied how people use city streets, plazas and other open spaces. With the help of movie cameras, he demonstrated that people move, window-shop, meet, chat, rest on benches, stairs and planter boxes and watch other people in ways that...
...Organization Man, wrote William H. Whyte in the final paragraph of his 1956 classic, must fight The Organisation William Whyte, meet fletcher Byrom. A feisty fellow, Byrom lives by the philosophy that the highest form of loyalty is to battle organizational rigidities and inertia...
...view the law as a basis for education, especially in terms of forms of ownership and control," Whyte said...