The great good place : cafés, coffee shops, bookstores, bars, hair salons, and other hangouts at the heart of a community / Ray Oldenburg.
"The Great Good Place argues that "third places" - where people can gather, put aside the concerns of work and home, and hang out simply for the pleasures of good company and lively conversation - are the heart of a community's social vitality and the grassroots of democracy.&quo...
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Cambridge, Ma :
Da Capo Press,
[1999]
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Table of Contents:
- Pt.1 : The problem of place in America
- The character of third places
- The personal benefits
- The greater good
- Pt.2 : The German-American lager beer gardens
- Main street
- The English pub
- The French café
- The American tavern
- Classic coffeehouses
- Pt.3 : A hostile habitat
- The sexes and the third place
- Shutting out youth
- Toward better times...and places.