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The pub. The café. The town square. They’re not home. They’re not work. They’re something else. But these places are becoming more and more scarce. And in car-dependent suburbia, they've been erased almost completely … and that's a problem.
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Script by Nicole Conlan and Jason Slaughter
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References & Further Reading
Q + A with Ray Oldenburg
https://www.steelcase.com/research/articles/topics/design-q-a/q-ray-oldenburg/
The Great Good Place (book)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Good_Place_(book)
Project for Public Spaces - Ray Oldenburg
https://www.pps.org/article/roldenburg
Do Yourself a Favor and Go Find a ‘Third Place’
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/04/third-places-meet-new-people-pandemic/629468/
“Third places” as community builders
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2016/09/14/third-places-as-community-builders/
Public Places and Commercial Spaces: How Neighborhood Amenities Foster Trust and Connection in American Communities
American Community Life Survey
https://www.americansurveycenter.org/research/public-places-and-commercial-spaces-how-neighborhood-amenities-foster-trust-and-connection-in-american-communities/
McDonald's: you can sneer, but it's the glue that holds communities together
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/mcdonalds-community-centers-us-physical-social-networks
A Question About Friends Reveals a Lot About Class Divides
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/upshot/a-question-about-friends-reveals-a-lot-about-class-divides.html
Do people really meet up at barbershops and just hang out, like on tv? If so, why is it in specifically barbershops that people hang out like that?
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnAmerican/comments/kl7vh8/do_people_really_meet_up_at_barbershops_and_just/
Some taking advantage of cooling centers amid scorching heat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L-2dpjQpEs
East Baltimore Community Engagement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3BfP1zIfPw
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Chapters
0:00 Pre-roll
0:08 Introduction
0:39 Ray Oldenburg's "Third Place"
1:18 Our "local"
2:16 Why smaller apartments are OK
3:04 Cheers
3:42 Other benefits of the Third Places
5:27 How suburbia destroyed the Third Place
6:06 Stealing "keep off" signs
6:28 Faking the Third Places
8:02 Let's go to the mall!
8:55 The sterilized Third Place
9:22 The barber shop
9:41 What's left of the Third Place in America
10:18 Conclusion
11:27 Curiosity Stream and Nebula
12:54 Patreon Shout-out
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