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Sociologist Ray Oldenburg dubbed them Third Places in his 1989 book, The Great Good Place. He wrote that Third Places (not work, not home) are “the heart of a community’s social vitality, the grassroots of democracy.” But in the U.S., he wrote, we’ve almost lost them, as people spend more time in cars, in shopping malls, or at home in front of a screen. Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Bishop, Cheers, citiwire, coffeehouse, community, de Beauvoir, democracy, Facebook, Hemingway, information technology, Les Deux Magots, Mary Newsom, MySpace, Paris, Picasso, pub, Ray Oldenburg, Sartre, social media, social vitality, Sociology, The Big Sort, The Great Good Place, Third Places, Twitter, virtual
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