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What Is The City But The People? (New York City Department of City Planning, 1969)
youtube.comMOST THIRD places enjoy a location where pedestrian traffic is heavy and many regulars live but minutes away
Ray Oldenburg • Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories About the Great Good Places at the Heart of Our Communities
Henri Lefebvres - Das Städtische
Ersatz third places can also be expensive, so think Soho House. So people who can't afford to hang out in one of them have to make do with under maintained, bare minimum public places. Oldenburg notes men drinking beers outside convenience stores in the parking lot because there's no seating actually inside the stores or teens gathering in a local
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(Saskia Sassen, Domus, 2011)
Dan Hill • Dark Matter and Trojan Horses. A Strategic Design Vocabulary.
Rosenblum and Travis (2015) argue that, despite the coexistence of both privilege and oppression within any one person, stigma is so pervasive and strong in our society that oppression can often trump privileges that one’s other statuses might offer. They point to health, housing, economic, hiring, and promotion disparities as evidence that
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If we don't have real third places, what do we have instead? Oldenburg calls what we have as non-places. In real places, a human being is a unique individual person. In non-places, individuality disappears and you're either a customer, a client, an address to be billed, or a car to be parked. Places have now mostly been reduced to consumerism.
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