If you’ve ever watched your teen hop onto a Discord server faster than they’ll answer your text, you’ve probably wondered ...

Ray Oldenburg, a famous sociologist, coined the term "third place." He defines it as a "generic designation for a great ...

A concept originally coined by sociologist Ray Oldenburg, a third place is a place separate from the home, your first place, and work or school, your second place. It is where you spend time in ...

“Third place” was a term coined in 1989 by sociologist Ray Oldenburg in his book “The Great Good Place.” Third places are spaces other than one’s work or home where people can relax or hang out.

Brown’s third places are stunted by their academic proximity. The Blue Room, for example, is a social epicenter of campus, ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. In his book “The Great Good Place,” sociologist Ray Oldenburg introduced us to the concept of the ...

It began, appropriately enough, with a book. Seattle-area real estate developer Ron Sher became infatuated with Ray Oldenburg’s 1989 book “The Great Good Place,” which argued that late 20th-century ...

We continue the series on walking Buffalo, from the intrepid couple who walked every day—no matter the weather—in the early years of Covid. They think (without being systematic) they walked every ...

On Thursday Sept. 26, the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning held its weekly Erv Zube Lecture, titled “What is a ‘Third Place’ and Why do They Matter?” in the lecture hall of ...