The social life of small urban spaces / by William H. Whyte.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Whyte, William H., Jr., 1917-1999.

Municipal Art Society of New York.

Street Life Project

Direct Cinema Ltd.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pedestrian areas--Social aspects--United States.

Pedestrian areas.

Open spaces--Social aspects--United States.

Open spaces.

Parks--Social aspects--United States.

Parks.

Plazas--Social aspects--United States.

Plazas.

Plazas--Social aspects.

Parks--Social aspects.

Open spaces--Social aspects.

Pedestrian areas--Social aspects.

United States.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (58 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, CA : Direct Cinema Ltd., [2005]

System Details:

DVD-R, NTSC, all region; full screen (1.33:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital.

digital optical Dolby Digital

full screen (1.33:1)

NTSC

video file DVD-R video all region

Summary:

A small group of observers, the "Street Life Project", sets out to study how people use the parks and plazas of the city. With the help of time-lapse filming they find that what makes a place work are the basics--a place to sit, for example, food, sun, a passing show.

Credits:

Photography, William H. Whyte, Marilyn Russell; music by Bainbridge Brass Quintet.

Notes:

"Produced by the Municipal Art Society of New York."--Container.

Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1979.

Related text of the same title by William Hollingsworth White, c1980.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

1559746874

9781559746878

OCLC:

62313086