Palaces for the People¶
Klinenberg, E. (2018). Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life. Crown.
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- Encounter Surface
- It also surfaces a budget logic — encounter-surface area is maintenance-intensive, requiring cleaning, lighting, moderation, shared schedules, open APIs, persistent identity — and that maintenance cost is real and usually invisible until the surface degrades.
This sourceArgues that libraries and similar "social infrastructure" are accessible, durable, normed shared spaces where life-sustaining contact among strangers forms — supporting the library as an encounter layer beyond book-lending and the maintenance cost of such shared spaces.
- It also surfaces a budget logic — encounter-surface area is maintenance-intensive, requiring cleaning, lighting, moderation, shared schedules, open APIs, persistent identity — and that maintenance cost is real and usually invisible until the surface degrades.
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