William H Whyte quotes

" What attracts people most, it would appear, is other people. " # Appearance

" One felicity leads to another. Good places tend to be all of a piece – and the reason can almost always be traced to a human being. " # Marriage # Leaders and Leadership # Life and Living

" It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished. " # Space

" We are not hapless beings caught in the grip of forces we can do little about, and wholesale damnations of our society only lend a further mystique to organization. Organization has been made by man; it can be changed by man. " # Things and Little Things # Change # Writers and Writing

" The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center. " # Cities and City Life

" If there's a lesson in streetwatching it is that people do like basics -- and as environments go, a street that is open to the sky and filled with people and life is a splendid place to be. " # Life and Living # Love # Environment

" The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten. " # Morality # Architecture # Ideas

" Up to seven people per foot of walkway a minute is a nice bustle. " # Defeat # Love # Risk

" There is a rash of studies underway designed to uncover the bad consequences of overcrowding. This is all very well as far as it goes, but it only goes in one direction. What about undercrowding? The researchers would be a lot more objective if they paid as much attention to the possible effects on people of relative isolation and lack of propinquity. Maybe some of those rats they study get lonely too. " # Loneliness # Research # Friends and Friendship

" So-called "undesirables" are not the problem. It is the measures taken to combat them that is the problem. " # Marriage