William H. Whyte Quotes

• Es difícil diseñar un espacio que no atraiga a la gente. Lo sorprendente es cuántas veces se ha conseguido.

  William H. Whyte

  Urbanization, Cities, Space

  William H. Whyte (2012). “City: Rediscovering the Center”, p.109, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• What attracts people most, it would appear, is other people.

  William H. Whyte

  Personas

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• The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.

  William H. Whyte

  Cities, Rivers, Together

  William H. Whyte (2012). “City: Rediscovering the Center”, p.7, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• People tend to sit where there are places to sit

  William H. Whyte

  Personas

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• If you want to seed a place with activity, the first thing to do is to put out food.

  William H. Whyte

  Want, Seeds, Activity

  "City: Rediscovering the Center".

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• So-called 'undesirables' are not the problem. It is the measures taken to combat them that is the problem.

  William H. Whyte

  Taken, Problem, Combat

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• It’s not right to put water before people and then keep them away from it.

  William H. Whyte

  People, Water

  William H. Whyte (2012). “City: Rediscovering the Center”, p.139, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

  William H. Whyte

  Tree, Citizens, Next

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• The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.

  William H. Whyte

  Dimensions, Forgotten, Architect

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• La gente rara vez piensa en grupo; hablan juntos, intercambian información, adjudican, llegan a acuerdos. Pero no piensan, no crean.

  William H. Whyte

  Change, Thinking, People

  William H. Whyte (2013). “The Organization Man”, p.51, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it. Indeed, it is often a mask for cowardice, and few are more pathetic than those who flaunt outer differences to expiate their inner surrender.

  William H. Whyte

  Differences, Goal, Acquiescence

  William H. Whyte (2013). “The Organization Man”, p.10, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals.

  William H. Whyte

  People, Goal, Different

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• Hemos sido los más pródigos con la tierra, y durante años la malgastamos impunemente. Había tanta y, por mucho que la ensuciáramos, siempre había más en la colina de al lado, o eso parecía.

  William H. Whyte

  Years, Land, People

  William H. Whyte (2012). “The Last Landscape”, p.1, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• 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 he has seen is the dormitory of the next managerial class.

  William H. Whyte

  Sympathy, Home, Class

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