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"In our attention to making organization work we have come close to deifying it. We are describing its defects as virtues and denying that there is - or should be - a conflict between the individual and the organization. This denial is bad for the organization. It is worse for the individual."William H. Whyte, from The Organization Man 

A skeptic of urbanism before his time.

This article was originally published on Common Edge. In the early 1980s, when I first saw the film The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces and then...

His legacy has mostly slipped through the cracks, but his ideas provided a blueprint for re-creating the city as a center of modern social life, laying the groundwork for today’s New Urbanist movement.

The American urbanist and planner succeeded by not allowing organization or ideology to get in the way of ideas.