Third Places, Stanley Cup Mania, and the Epidemic of Loneliness
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Third Places, Stanley Cup Mania, and the Epidemic of Loneliness
Remember the TV show Cheers, where “everybody knows your name, and they're always glad you came"?
The fictional bar represented something vital that sociologist Ray Oldenburg coined a "third place"—somewhere between home and work where people gather, connect, and find respite from their daily responsibilities.
The atmosphere, both physical and social, is the trickiest and most essential part of creating a warm and welcoming third place. Both need constant attention and periodic tweaking. Both show signs of neglect and fatigue immediately
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For our community, the pandemic was an inflection point in the latent sense of disconnection that had been simmering for a generation. We awoke from the fever dream of Covid to find that the city had transformed around us, offering no shortage of trendy spaces to photograph a perfect matcha latte or sip a $25 dirty martini. But amid this abundance ... See more