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Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories About the "Great Good Places" at the Heart of Our Communities Paperback – January 9, 2002

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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 appreciations by fans who have made spending time at these hangouts a regular part of their lives. Among the establishments profiled are a shopping center in Seattle, a three-hundred-year-old tavern in Washington, D.C., a garden shop in Amherst, Massachusetts, a coffeehouse in Raleigh, North Carolina, a bookstore in Traverse City, Michigan, and a restaurant in San Francisco.

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1569246122
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Sociologist Oldenburg (The Great, Good Place) offers a compilation of essays on those places in America "where everybody knows your name." What Oldenburg calls "the third place" is different from home and work (the first and second places respectively) it's somewhere people can relax in good company on a regular basis. In this collection of 19 essays, proprietors and patrons of those third places describe how their establishments came into being and what exactly gives them their appeal. These third places aren't just diners and coffeehouses: there are establishments as disparate as Annie's Gift and Garden Shop, in Amherst, Mass., whose witty and provocative billboards provide a jumping-off point for conversation within the community, and Old St. George, an espresso bar located within a church's sacristy in Cleveland, Ohio. There's also the "great good gym" and, perhaps most surprising, an essay claiming prison to be the third place for many disadvantaged in American society. These charming and often thought-provoking essays, each written in a voice distinct as the place discussed, provide food for thought into the isolation our modern conveniences bring and people's need to come together as a community. This book will strike a comforting chord for those questioning the status quo and desiring to live a more authentic and connected way of life.

About the Author

Ray Oldenburg, PhD, is a professor of sociology at the University of West Florida. He is frequently sought after as a media commentator and consultant to entrepreneurs, community and urban planners, churches, and others seeking to establish great good places. He lives in Pensacola, Florida.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Da Capo Press; First Edition (January 9, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1569246122
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1569246122
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #374,658 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- #405 in Sociology of Urban Areas
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Wombat

A little disappointed...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 30, 2009

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Although I enjoyed reading 'first person" pieces from owners/originators of 'great third places,' I was hoping for a greater range and variety. There were of course a lot of coffee shops, and overall most were very small businesses. Does that mean that a larger business can't create & sustain the third place idea? I don't think so, but this book celebrates small and personal, and for many places success rests in the hands of one or two special employees. That's not strategy, that's personality.

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Shannon

This is a good book for people interested in how we create space ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 6, 2014

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This is a good book for people interested in how we create space for ourselves or how to create spaces that will draw people.

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Gloria Chabot

Insightful read

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Interesting read - now you can better understand why certain brands have built there stores as they have- great insight

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Maria

Celebrate this book!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 24, 2013

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I found this very helpful and insightful. Anyone opening a store should read this book. Hearing first person accounts makes it easy to connect.

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Five Stars

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Great Book !

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More slice of life than oblique strategies

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 8, 2020

The first person accounts in the book are quite interesting, but there are very few details about how each person created their own third place. If you're looking to bask in warm stories about third places this is an excellent book.
But if you're looking for solid advice about how to create one of your own I'd look elsewhere.

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Steven Lim

Inspirational, Refreshing, ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 26, 2008

This book contains so many highly inspirational stories which reflects on the fact that Modern day societies no longer provide ample "breathing" space for "socialising". It shows how and where people really and truly like to interact and how "knowledge" is being shared (freely) without fear of any kind. From a business sense, if we can capitalise on some of these "Third Places", we might even established a profitable venture! Steven Lim (RSTN) - Singapore.

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Alain M.

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great! writer understood the feeling to accomplish

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It tells what it's meant to tell

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on January 10, 2021

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I needed a book about third places for my thesis and stumbled upon this one. It has a lot of stories about different venues. Beatiful described and it really reads easily. All in all the stories won't tell how to run third places. It gives examples what a third place can be but it won't have the answer for you how to make one. You can get general ideas out of the book but the essence imo is that it's about the people who visit the place not the place itself.
A nice read but definitely not more enlightening than a search on the web.

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