The great good place : cafe?s, coffee shops, bookstores, bars, hair salons, and other hangouts at the heart of a community (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The great good place : cafe?s, coffee shops, bookstores, bars, hair salons, and other hangouts at the heart of a community Sunday, August 2 2009.

• The Great Good Place argues that "third places" - where people can gather, put aside the concerns of work and home, and hang out simply for the pleasures of good company and lively conversation - are the heart of a community's social vitality and the grassroots of democracy.

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• Added a contributor: Ray Oldenburg: (Primary Author)

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• THE ENSUING YEARS have confirmed Lerner's diagnosis.