Celebrating the Third Place

By Ray Oldenburg,

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

Book description

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…


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1 author picked Celebrating the Third Place as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I learned about this book from a friend in a coffee shop in Waco, Texas. He mentioned that the coffee shop was a “third place.” I asked him what he meant, and he referred me to this book, which introduced the world to the idea that home is one’s first place, work is one’s second place, and one’s third place is where one goes to socialize. After reading it, you will want to have a third place.  

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