Rethinking Third Places
Subtitle: Informal Public Spaces and Community Building
Publisher: Elgar Publishing Limited, Edward
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781786433909
Subjects: Sociology, urban; Land use, urban; City planning; City and town life; Public spaces
Description: Ray Oldenburg's concept of third place is re-visited in this book through contemporary approaches and new examples of third places. Third place is not your home (first place), not your work (second place), but those informal public places in which we interact with the people. Readers will come to understand the importance of third places and how they can be incorporated into urban design to offer places of interaction - promoting togetherness in an urbanised world of mobility and rapid change.