Technology Is Not Driving Us Apart After All
The Street Life Project, as it was called, was revolutionary in urban planning, changing not only the way we think about public spaces but also what can be learned in this kind of close observational research of human interaction. Whyte believed that if we knew how, say, the placement of benches, or a plaza’s orientation to the sun, affected people’s enjoyment of a public space, then we could go beyond mere observation into the realm of smarter policy.
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