William H. Whyte Quotes

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• People very rarely think in groups; they talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises. But they do not think; they do not…
• The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones.…
• What attracts people most, it would appear, is other people.
• It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.
• The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.
• The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.
• So-called 'undesirables' are not the problem. It is the measures taken to combat them that is the problem.
• If you want to seed a place with activity, put out food.
• Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.
• People tend to sit where there are places to sit
• We have been the most prodigal of people with land, and for years we wasted it with impunity. There was so much of it, and…

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