The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
William H. Whyte was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1917.  He joined the staff of Fortune in 1946, after graduating from Princeton University and serving in the Marine Corps.  His book The Organization Man (1956), based on his articles about corporate culture and the suburban middle class, sold more than two million copies. Whyte then turned to the topics of sprawl and urban revitalization, and began a distinguished career as a sage of sane development and an advocate of cities. Along with numerous articles and studies, Whyte edited and co-wrote The Exploding Metropolis (1957), and authored Cluster Development (1964), The Last Landscape (1968), The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (1980), City: Rediscovering the Center (1988), and A Time of War: Remembering Guadalcanal, a Battle Without Maps (2000).  He died in 1999.