The Great Good Place¶
Oldenburg, R. (1989). The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community.
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- Encounter Surface
- The pattern extends to marketplaces and trading floors (stranger-encounter organised around exchange), civic institutions (open gatherings, festivals, town meetings, juries), conferences (the hallway and the coffee break, not the talks), universities (the common rooms and quads that make a campus sociologically different from a set of classrooms), and open scientific repositories (preprint servers where strangers are seen contributing).
This sourceIntroduces the "third place" concept — accessible, durable, normed informal gathering spots where strangers come into contact.
- The pattern extends to marketplaces and trading floors (stranger-encounter organised around exchange), civic institutions (open gatherings, festivals, town meetings, juries), conferences (the hallway and the coffee break, not the talks), universities (the common rooms and quads that make a campus sociologically different from a set of classrooms), and open scientific repositories (preprint servers where strangers are seen contributing).
Domain-specific¶
- Third Place
- Oldenburg specified eight characteristics that distinguish a genuine third place from a setting that merely resembles one: it occupies neutral ground where no one is host and no one is guest; it is a social leveller where differences of status carry less weight than in work or home contexts; conversation is the primary activity and the main good on offer; it is accessible and accommodating to a wide range of people and drop-in schedules; it has regulars — a recognisable core of habitual visitors whose presence gives the setting its character and anchors new arrivals; it maintains a low profile, not prestigious or architecturally distinguished; it carries a playful, informal, unhurried mood; and it functions as a home away from home, a place of psychological comfort and ease.
This sourceOldenburg's identification, in The Great Good Place, of the essential characteristics of informal public gathering places and of the third place's differences from home and work. Oldenburg's diagnosis that American life has become more jangled and fragmented, framed as an ecological problem of the American family. Oldenburg's The Great Good Place, his book on cafes, coffee shops, bookstores, bars and other informal public gathering places.
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- Oldenburg specified eight characteristics that distinguish a genuine third place from a setting that merely resembles one: it occupies neutral ground where no one is host and no one is guest; it is a social leveller where differences of status carry less weight than in work or home contexts; conversation is the primary activity and the main good on offer; it is accessible and accommodating to a wide range of people and drop-in schedules; it has regulars — a recognisable core of habitual visitors whose presence gives the setting its character and anchors new arrivals; it maintains a low profile, not prestigious or architecturally distinguished; it carries a playful, informal, unhurried mood; and it functions as a home away from home, a place of psychological comfort and ease.
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