Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories About the "Great Good Places" at the Heart of Our Communities
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781569246122
Description: Nationwide, more and more entrepreneurs are committing themselves to creating and running?third places," also known as?great good places." In his landmark work, The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg identified, portrayed, and promoted those third places. Now, more than ten years after the original publication of that book, the time has come to celebrate the many third places that dot the American landscape and foster civic life. With 20 black-and-white photographs, Celebrating the Third Place brings together fifteen firsthand accounts by proprietors of third places, as well as appreciatio.