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About the Book
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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