Word: whyte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Heber F. Whyte...
...will of the people." Chief Education Officer George Brizan, 41, is planning to form and lead the National Democratic Party, but its main draw is Robert Grant, a longtime lecturer in law who also happens to be "Soca Boca," one of the island's hottest disc jockeys. Winston Whyte, 39, who was released from four years of imprisonment during the invasion, hopes to drum up support in the villages. But he too concedes that "Gairy is the most organized force in the country." All three men are also overshadowed by the memory of Bishop, the popular former Prune Minister...
...Whyte, 65, has long been concerned with the real life of cities as opposed to the conventional urban wisdom of planners and architects. A former Fortune editor, he belongs to a small band of journalists who have alerted laymen to the folly of the two extreme approaches to the hearts of our cities: neglect and cataclysmic "renewal." Among Whyte's allies are Grady Clay, formerly of the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, now editor of Landscape Architecture magazine, and Jane Jacobs, who is teaching at Toronto. In the 1958 anthology The Exploding Metropolis, Jacobs wrote, "The point. . . is to work...
Although the tide has turned and bankers and developers are again investing in downtown, the shiny new megastructures of the '70s and '80s are often still as destructive of its "remarkable intricacy and liveliness" as the bulldozers of the '50s and '60s. Whyte first noticed the proliferation of blank walls when, some years ago, he studied how people use city streets, plazas and other open spaces. With the help of movie cameras, he demonstrated that people move, window-shop, meet, chat, rest on benches, stairs and planter boxes and watch other people in ways that...
...Whyte has assembled his own photographs of blank walls into a small but impressive exhibition at New York City's Urban Center. New York, appropriately, is one of two major cities (San Francisco is the other) to ban blank walls, in effect, through zoning that requires retailing at street level in commercial buildings. As Whyte's photos make clear, the worst offenders are convention centers, like the one in the Seattle Sheraton Hotel, and the new megastructure office, hotel and shopping centers, such as the Bonaventure Hotel and Atlantic Richfield Plaza in Los Angeles, the Embarcadero Center...