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City Rediscovering the Center

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ISBN-10: 0812220749

ISBN-13: 9780812220742

Edition: 2009

Authors: William H. Whyte, Paco Underhill

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 9/22/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.00" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

Foreword
Introduction
The Social Life of the Street
Street People
The Skilled Pedestrian
The Physical Street
The Sensory Street
The Design of Spaces
Water, Wind, Trees, and Light
The Management of Spaces
The Undesirables
Carrying Capacity
Steps and Entrances
Concourses and Skyways
Megastructures
Blank Walls
The Rise and Fall of Incentive Zoning
Sun and Shadow
Bounce Light
Sun Easements
The Corporate Exodus
The Semi-Cities
How to Dullify Downtown
Tightening Up
The Case for Gentrification
Return to the Agora
Appendices
Digest of Open-Space Zoning Provisions in New York City
Mandating of Retailing at Street Level
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments