Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories About the "Great Good Places" at the Heart of Our Communities

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569246122
• ISBN13: 9781569246122
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Inspirational, Refreshing, ...

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.