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assorted notes from the Social Life of Urban Spaces & A Pattern LanguageWilliam H. Whyte put a bunch of time lapse cameras in 16 NYC plazas and 3 NYC parks, observing human behavior. As a result, he noticed many complex spatial nuances that seem trivial. To me, his book The Social Life of Small Urban Places attempts to explain why the ~vibe~ of some…