“The Cultural Life of Urban Spaces”

William H. whyte is on a mission to discover why some of New York City public spaces were successful and other a failure. Willaim feels that with the disuse of public space social interactions and cultural diversity are being performed less. He believes that the main reason for the disuse of public space has to do with the fear of terrorism. He states that after 9/11 people stopped being active in public spaces and have formed some sort of fear toward terrorism. In p3 the last paragraph was very unclear to me. after i read it i felt as if Williams was blaming immigrants for the disuse of public space.In this paragraph he write that after immigrants took over some public spaces, less public money for operations and maintenance where given.