The great good place
Subtitle: cafés, coffee shops, community centers, beauty parlors, general stores, bars, hangouts, and how they get you through the day
By: Ray Oldenburg.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Paragon House
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: City and town life -- United States; Public spaces -- United States; Leisure -- United States
Description: The "third place" is a place where people can gather, put aside the concerns of work and home, and hangout simply for the pleasure of good company and lively conversations. They are the heart of a community's social vitality, the grassroots of a democracy, but, sadly, they constitute a diminishing aspect of the American social landscape.
Author Ray Oldenburg portrays, probes, and promotes the bar, bistro, and coffee shop, holding out a vision for the restoration of great good places in our community. Eloquent and visionary, this is a compelling argument for these settings of informal public life as essential for both the health of our towns and ourselves.
Notes: First published in hardcover in 1989.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-323) and index.