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Nationwide, more and more entrepreneurs are committing themselves to creating and running "third places," also known as "great good places." In his landmark work, The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg identified, portrayed, and promoted those third places. Now, more than ten years after the original publication of that book, the time has come to celebrate the many third places that dot the American landscape and foster civic life. With 20 black-and-white photographs, Celebrating the Third Place brings together fifteen firsthand accounts by proprietors of third places, as well as appreciations by fans who have made spending time at these hangouts a regular part of their lives. Among the establishments profiled are a shopping centre in Seattle, a three-hundred-year-old tavern in Washington, D.C., a garden shop in Amherst, Massachusetts, a coffeehouse in Raleigh, North Carolina, a bookstore in Traverse City, Michigan, and a restaurant in San Francisco.… (meer)
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 interactions and social contacts but are under attack by streamlined, efficiency-driven corporations. A successful Third Place encourages patrons to linger, a successful franchise wants patrons to consume and depart as quickly as possible. Many Third Places thus are under attack and often only held together by a selfless owner. A collection of case studies of actual working Third Places would be helpful indeed.
Alas, the editor has been too lenient in his selection, Many of the commercial establishments in this reader do not fit the definition of a Third Place. A Third Place is more than a place one likes to be or a store with a friendly owner. Thus, the reader includes too many self-promoting businesses that fit the definition of a Third Place only at the margin. The best entry is actually about Chicago prisons as sort of Third Places. The unfortunate American jail policies lets prisons become the place where young men (cut off from home and work) exchange ideas and mingle - certainly not the Third Place Oldenburg had in mind. ( )
Jane: I read this. This book was a collection of articles by people who are connected to businesses that try to create third places. Some were definitely interesting, but some too business-y, some poorly written, and overall not as inspiring as I had hoped.
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 exposition throughout this book explaining the specific third place principles in action. I will now read The Great Good Place, hoping that I remember these coffeeshops and bars and bookstores as I read of Great Good Place tenets. ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Annie Cheatham, qtd in p 10 "Adults in these places knew me and they cared about me, not in an overbearing or intrusive way, but enough so I noticed. I wasn't invisible. I had a name and people used it, sometimes to steer me back in the right direction. I've always been grateful for being known in that way. I liked the intimacy, and ever since then, I've looked for places that offer that kind of arm's-length caring."
Annie Cheatham, qtd in p 17 "Great good places unite the community, serve the elderly, bring adults and children together in a relaxed setting, foster democracy, provide places for people to have fun. All of these qualities enhance and encourage friendship, understanding and tolerance."
Lynne Breaux, qtd in p 82 "Conversation, the prime draw of a true third place, is a necessary component of any civilized society. Oral communication provides us with the exchange of ideas, sentiments, or observations. The spoken word affords the release of the internal demons in all of us. Therefore, talk eases fear. To socialize is to partake in a friendly an d agreeable interchange.
Marsha Alfafara, qtd in p213 "as the semester progressed students were directed to seek out third places within their own communities.... it was awkward for them at first. They received guidelines - go at the same time each week, sit in the same place, order the same thing, listen to folks and talk to them. It is, after all, a communication class."
Denis Wood, qtd in pp 166-167 "The cruelty of imprisonment - which those who have not experienced it cannot imagine - comes not from material deprivation or physical hardship but from the loss of the first and second places. The compensations of the third place are a balm but not a panacea, and in the end they cannot make up for the loss of work and home in the context of which alone, after all, third places make their truest meanings. Only in the modern world has the third place, as an assured part of daily life, been locked away from those who need it most, and granted fully only to those incapable of experiencing the first and second places. Among the ironies of our time, this has to rank among the sharpest."
Steve Balkin & Brian Mier, qtd in pp203-204 " Americans generally don't read. For people to learn about their history, it has to be embodied in a bricks and mortar historic district. Without a historic district, the stories of old Maxwell Street will be forgotten within a couple of generations. Americans may not always be on top of the global economy and may again need to know how to create something from nothing."
Nationwide, more and more entrepreneurs are committing themselves to creating and running "third places," also known as "great good places." In his landmark work, The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg identified, portrayed, and promoted those third places. Now, more than ten years after the original publication of that book, the time has come to celebrate the many third places that dot the American landscape and foster civic life. With 20 black-and-white photographs, Celebrating the Third Place brings together fifteen firsthand accounts by proprietors of third places, as well as appreciations by fans who have made spending time at these hangouts a regular part of their lives. Among the establishments profiled are a shopping centre in Seattle, a three-hundred-year-old tavern in Washington, D.C., a garden shop in Amherst, Massachusetts, a coffeehouse in Raleigh, North Carolina, a bookstore in Traverse City, Michigan, and a restaurant in San Francisco.
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Alas, the editor has been too lenient in his selection, Many of the commercial establishments in this reader do not fit the definition of a Third Place. A Third Place is more than a place one likes to be or a store with a friendly owner. Thus, the reader includes too many self-promoting businesses that fit the definition of a Third Place only at the margin. The best entry is actually about Chicago prisons as sort of Third Places. The unfortunate American jail policies lets prisons become the place where young men (cut off from home and work) exchange ideas and mingle - certainly not the Third Place Oldenburg had in mind. (