In 1980, a film narrated by a sociologist as soon as described as Jimmy Stewart’s city planner cousin, and filled with surveillance footage of the town’s public areas, delivered maybe the richest and wisest look ever made at how New Yorkers use the town’s public areas.
Municipal Artwork Society president Keri Butler joins LIT NYC hosts Harry Siegel and Amy Sohn to debate William H. Whyte’s sensible The Social Lifetime of Small City Areas, which of his zen koans about these areas have stood the take a look at of time in a technologically remodeled world, and rather more.
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