Celebrating the Third Place : Inspiring Stories About the Great Good Places at the Heart of Our Communities (Paperback)

from jcbrunner

Ray Oldenburg re-discovered the importance of the Third Place, a location where people mingle that is not their home (First Place) nor their work (Second Place). "Cafés, coffee shops, community centers, beauty parlors, general stores, bars, hangouts" are enormously important for democratic intera...

from goodnightmoon

I got this book and The Great Good Place at the same time, and I opted to read this one first for its narrative structure. I think I learned a lot more about third places by seeing so many examples than I would have from reading a strictly informative text. Still, I wish there was a bit more expo...

from Pat_F.

Where Do You Go for Community that's not Work or Home? This is a wonderful book. It clued me in to something I've been yearning for without realizing what it was--a community. The examples provided range from coffeeshops to restaurants to a garden center to a gym to a barbershop to a prison (yes...

from Pat_F.

Where Do You Go for Community that's not Work or Home? This is a wonderful book. It clued me in to something I've been yearning for without realizing what it was--a community. The examples provided range from coffeeshops to restaurants to a garden center to a gym to a barbershop to a prison (yes...