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The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community

door Ray Oldenburg

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The landmark survey that celebrates all the places where people hang out--and is helping to spawn their revival A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "Third places," or "great good places," are the many public places where people can gather, put aside the concerns of home and work (their first and second places), and hang out simply for the pleasures of good company and lively conversation. They are the heart of a community's social vitality and the grassroots of a democracy. Author Ray Oldenburg portrays, probes, and promotes th4ese great good places--coffee houses, cafes, bookstores, hair salons, bars, bistros, and many others both past and present--and offers a vision for their revitalization. Eloquent and visionary, this is a compelling argument for these settings of informal public life as essential for the health both of our communities and ourselves. And its message is being heard: Today, entrepreneurs from Seattle to Florida are heeding the call of The Great Good Place--opening coffee houses, bookstores, community centers, bars, and other establishments and proudly acknowledging their indebtedness to this book.… (meer)
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  jstruzzi | Jan 14, 2022 |
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  pszolovits | Feb 3, 2021 |
The author points out that commercial space has destroyed our "communities". Even the "invisible hand of the market" which Adam Smith hoped would usher us toward greater social harmony, has failed to do so. [223] Smith did not foresee how "weaponized" by greed the private corporations would become.
Oldenburg is an academic who writes in popular psychology. I loved the title with "Great Good Place", because it invokes the ecclesia of Christ who tells us that the church is our savior: We all know what Heaven on Earth is, and sometimes we get quite close to it. He cites Georg Simmell as the expert on "human sociability" and systemic dynamics.

Oldenburg unwraps the details, exposing the diversity across cultures and places, and showing how America has lost gathering places for good company and conversation. Our taverns are declining although drinking has increased.

Paris has sidewalk cafes, London its pubs, Vienna its coffee houses, German its bier gardens, Japan its tea houses, and America once had its Main Street. After probing the bistros and bars, Oldenburg documents the fact that in 1989 the heart of community vitality is being torn out of America. The "great good place" is now gone. We no longer have a social way to avoid idiots. This observation seems prescient looking back from the disasters of 2016-2020.

This book is more than mere documentation, it is also insightful and provides a good basis for ventilating the implications for futurists, the democratic republic, and its religious values. Oldenburg does not mention "Disneyland" or the Wal-mart destruction of rural and urban America, nor does he compass the Internet or the possibility of "virtual communities" of individuals addicted to the preposterous clicks of emoticons. He does comment on the popularity of boules in the cafes, and how the most entertaining games get the most interest. [31] ( )
  keylawk | Sep 14, 2017 |
Great read for library professionals. ( )
  libheroine | Aug 6, 2013 |
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A number of recent American writings indicate that the nostalgia for the small town need not be construed as directed toward the town itself: it is rather a "quest for community" (as Robert Nisbet puts it)--a nostalgia for a compassable and integral living unit. The critical question is not whether the small town can be rehabilitated in the image of its earlier strength and growth--for clearly it cannot--but whether American life will be able to evolve any other integral community to replace it. This is what I call the problem of place in America, and unless it is somehow resolved, American life will become more jangled and fragmented than it is, and American personality will continue to be unquiet and unfulfilled

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The landmark survey that celebrates all the places where people hang out--and is helping to spawn their revival A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "Third places," or "great good places," are the many public places where people can gather, put aside the concerns of home and work (their first and second places), and hang out simply for the pleasures of good company and lively conversation. They are the heart of a community's social vitality and the grassroots of a democracy. Author Ray Oldenburg portrays, probes, and promotes th4ese great good places--coffee houses, cafes, bookstores, hair salons, bars, bistros, and many others both past and present--and offers a vision for their revitalization. Eloquent and visionary, this is a compelling argument for these settings of informal public life as essential for the health both of our communities and ourselves. And its message is being heard: Today, entrepreneurs from Seattle to Florida are heeding the call of The Great Good Place--opening coffee houses, bookstores, community centers, bars, and other establishments and proudly acknowledging their indebtedness to this book.

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