Ray Oldenburg Concepts

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

by Ray Oldenburg · 30 Nov 2001 · 215pp · 71,155 words

“A book that should be read by everyone in North America over the age of 16.” —The World of Beer “ ‘The Great Good Place’ by Ray Oldenburg is a treatise on the ‘third places’ in our lives . . . he makes so much sense. He describes ways to gather back our sense of community

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the sidewalk cafes of Paris, English pubs, Viennese coffeehouses, German bier gartens, Japanese teahouses and America’s main street.” —Specialty Coffee Retailer Magazine RAY OLDENBURG Celebrating the Third Place Ray Oldenburg, Ph.D., professor emeritus of sociology at the University of West Florida, coined the term “third place” and is widely recognized as one

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after as a media commentator and consultant to entrepreneurs and community and urban planners. He lives in Pensacola, Florida. EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RAY OLDENBURG Celebrating the Third Place Inspiring Stories About the “Great Good Places” at the Heart of Our Communities MARLOWE & COMPANY NEW YORK CELEBRATING THE THIRD PLACE

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: Inspiring Stories About the “Great Good Places” at the Heart of Our Communities Copyright © 2001 by Ray Oldenburg Published by Marlowe & Company An Imprint of Avalon Publishing Group Incorporated All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in whole or

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away. Just as you might ask, What’s special about a Fred’s hot dog, you might also ask, What’s special about Annie’s? Ray Oldenburg, in his book The Great Good Place, describes characteristics of places like Fred’s and Annie’s. They are on neutral ground, welcome all people

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was a general malaise! A national phenomenon! And I, with my youthful enthusiasm and naïveté, was going to find the answer. And I thank you Ray Oldenburg, for leading the way. REALITY Seven years and many seventy-hour weeks later, I think I am still pretty thankful to Ray for the inspiration

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elements necessary to create the kind of energy and interaction that I wanted at the Crossroads Public Market, one guiding principle I have used is Ray Oldenburg’s concept of the third place, which I discovered in 1993 in his book The Great Good Place. After reading his book, I realized that

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a degreed sociologist, I am in an excellent position to observe the sociometry of relationships between people in a social group. Urbanologist and sociology professor Ray Oldenburg, upon first hearing of my degree, stated, “How wonderful that somebody with a sociology degree has put it to optimal use!” The aura of conviviality

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wasting thermal units, everyone congregated in just a few watering holes, conserving energy and having a ball. Ah, the unwitting irony of government. God and Ray Oldenburg know that we are indeed an essential business. The interconnectedness between current, past, and future staff and our regulars is amazing. The lines are all

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up shop content in the knowledge that there is no greater gift that one can bestow upon our fellow man than that of understanding him. Ray Oldenburg (center) having his weekly “coffee with the cops” at the Good Neighbor Coffee House. Good Neighbor Coffe House PENSACOLA, FLORIDA A STARBUCKS employee visited the

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is a psychological therapist. One of the best surprises we had was to discover that the author of the book The Great Good Place, Dr. Ray Oldenburg, lived and taught in the town we had settled in. One of our customers was his student at the University of West Florida, and when

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. No one wants to be in prison, but you can sure “chill the fuck out while you there.” At the time I hadn’t read Ray Oldenburg’s The Great Good Place, but as a professor on a landscape architecture faculty, as an environmental psychologist, as a lover of cities, I’d

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campus that looked like something a dinosaur coughed up after eating the United Nations Plaza. The campus design echoes what architect Victor Gruen, cited in Ray Oldenburg’s book, called “civic centers that are concentration camps for bureaucrats, who are thus prevented from mingling with common folks.” The construction of the UIC

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dislocation of minorities in the name of “slum clearance” and their replacement with suburban-style developments that catered to middle-class whites. We agree with Ray Oldenburg’s observation, “Segregation, isolation, compartmentalization, and sterilization seem to be the guiding principles of urban growth and urban renewal.” Eventually, federal funding to the old

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the minimum structures that the city code requires for a public institution to build on vacant land. The destruction here is a classic example of Ray Oldenburg’s observation, “One of the oft-repeated tragedies of the times is that white urban planners remove these important settings from the neighborhoods of the

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businesses still in them, including three hot dog stands. Those hot dog stands were the anchor businesses of the area, the core third places, which Ray Oldenburg defines as: “the place where one is more likely than anywhere else to encounter any given resident of the community.” One of the hot dog

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association where people meet and engage in conversation, shoot the breeze, gossip, and enjoy good old idle talk. Areas of free association as described by Ray Oldenburg are third places. Moving off campus emphasizes this concept of third places and helps foster understanding of how one’s voice builds community. In the

The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community

by Ray Oldenburg · 17 Aug 1999

Acclaim for Ray Oldenburg and The Great Good Place “Ray Oldenburg is inspirational. He is the first to recognize and articulate the importance of the greeting place (third place) for the well-being of the individual

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large.” —Ron Sher, President, Terranomics Development and founder, Third Place Books, Seattle, Washington “A day doesn’t go by that I don’t refer to Ray Oldenburg’s The Great Good Place. At a time when all great, good independent bookstores everywhere are under siege, we’re fortunate that Mr. Oldenburg has

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a child to the bookstore I now own. My goal at Horizon Books is to provide that third place in which people can “hang out.” Ray Oldenburg has defined those good places while still recognizing the magical chemistry they require. The Great Good Place is a book to read, to recommend, and

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book. As a fellow defender of neighborhoods and all they stand for, I salute you on it. —Andrew M. Greeley Copyright © 1989, 1997, 199 by Ray Oldenburg An earlier edition of this book was originally published in hardcover in 1989 by Paragon House. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may

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yearn for a public life and for life on the streets of our neighborhoods have been deprived. And we, I think, have the better case. Ray Oldenburg Pensacola, Florida October 1, 1996 Introduction GREAT CIVILIZATIONS, like great cities, share a common feature. Evolving within them and crucial to their growth and refinement

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that environment. Hope lies not with the expert or the official but with those who use the environment built for them and find it wanting. Ray Oldenburg Pensacola, Florida Acknowledgments OVER THE COURSE of this project’s development, I’ve incurred debts to many generous and helpful individuals. Apart from those identified

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those of less civilized ways. (Cyprus Tourism Organization) Let us learn from cities where sidewalks are, among other things, a good place to put chairs. (Ray Oldenburg) Many Americans learned to enjoy Europe’s sidewalk cafés and the relaxation they offer, as did these GI’s in their “civvies.” (Greek National Tourist

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. “It is where politicians, poets, and people of all ages, occupations and cultures converse and celebrate.” Pictured here is a recent weekend celebration. Photo © Ray Oldenburg Author Ray Oldenburg (center) at his own local great good place. In 1996, Tracy and Steve Spracklen opened their Good Neighbor Coffee Shop in Pensacola, Florida, not knowing

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. 10. Ralph Waldo Emerson, essay on “Experience.” 11. Mike Feinsilber and William B. Mead, American Averages (Garden City, New York: Dolphin Books, 1980), 60. 12. Ray Oldenburg, unpublished observations of seventy-eight Midwestern taverns, 1981. 13. Jacob Levine, “Humour as a Form of Therapy: Introduction to Symposium,” in It’s a Funny

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: Harper & Row, 1957. Young, T.R. New Sources of the Self. New York: Pergamon Press, 1972. All correspondence with the author should be addressed to: Ray Oldenburg, The University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida 32514. Index Addams, Jane, 218–222 Addison, Joseph, 21, 190–191 Advertisers and advertising, 11, 155 Affiliation, intimacy

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

by Gretchen McCulloch · 22 Jul 2019 · 413pp · 106,479 words

home, the second place is work, but people also need a third place to socialize that’s neither home nor work, like a coffeeshop. What Ray Oldenburg, the sociologist who coined the term in a 1989 book called The Great Good Place, had in mind was something more specific than just any

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. “Starbucks, ‘The Third Place,’ and Creating the Ultimate Customer Experience.” Fast Company. www.fastcompany.com/887990/starbucks-third-place-and-creating-ultimate-customer-experience. What Ray Oldenburg: Ray Oldenburg. 1989. The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Community Centers, Beauty Parlors, General Stores, Bars, Hangouts, and How They Get You Through the Day. Paragon

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, 2018. “Why ‘Stories’ Took Over Your Smartphone.” The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/smartphone-stories-snapchat-instagram-facebook/559517/. “Third place conversation”: Ray Oldenburg. 1989. The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Community Centers, Beauty Parlors, General Stores, Bars, Hangouts, and How They Get You Through the Day. Paragon

The Lonely Century: How Isolation Imperils Our Future

by Noreena Hertz · 13 May 2020 · 506pp · 133,134 words

community spaces where men gather to play chess and dominoes, whilst also discussing politics and local affairs.24 Some local businesses even become what sociologist Ray Oldenburg called, in his 1989 book The Great Good Place, ‘third places’: neither home, nor work, but rather gathering spaces abuzz with conversation where regulars meet

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& Culture, ‘The Community Roles of the Barber Shop and Beauty Salon,’ 2019, https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog/community-roles-barber-shop-and-beauty-salon. 25 Ray Oldenburg, The Great Good Place (Da Capo Press, 1999), p.22. Note that the ‘universal’ accessibility of such ‘third places’ is itself an idealistic assumption that

Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture

by Taylor Clark · 5 Nov 2007 · 304pp · 96,930 words

wife, who soon stumbled across the solution in a bookstore: an out-of-print book called The Great Good Place, by a sociology professor named Ray Oldenburg. In his book, Oldenburg describes America’s need for the neutral, safe, public gathering spots that had gradually disappeared; he calls this nexus the “third

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cry: it wasn’t a coffee company, but a third place bringing people together through the social glue of coffee. And who could disagree? Well, Ray Oldenburg, for one. Now retired, Oldenburg is grateful for the renewed attention that Starbucks brought to his third-place idea, but he remains displeased that the

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Rubinfeld boasted to me of having received stacks of letters from thankful homeowners who credit a nearby Starbucks with boosting long-stagnant property values. Even Ray Oldenburg, the father of the “third place” idea who later refused to endorse the chain, offered surprising praise for Starbucks’s ability to help revitalize a

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There (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000); Juliet B. Schor, The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don’t Need (New York: HarperPerennial, 1998); and Ray Oldenburg, The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community (New York: Marlowe, 1999). Page

Howard Rheingold

by The Virtual Community Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier-Perseus Books (1993) · 26 Apr 2012

my mind about a lot of aspects of the WELL over the years, but the sense of place is still as strong as ever. As Ray Oldenburg proposed in The Great Good Place, there are three essential places in people's lives : the place we live, the place we work, and the

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in such a way that the informal space extends to wherever your colleagues are located. In a sense, they are trying to synthesize what sociologist Ray Oldenburg calls "informal public spaces." Another recent Xerox experiment linked a wall-sized monitor in a common room in the Palo Alto laboratory with a common

Retrofitting Suburbia, Updated Edition: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs

by Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson · 23 Mar 2011 · 512pp · 131,112 words

rural to urban land: a sample from Gwinnett County, Georgia, between 1930 and 2000. THIRD PLACES IN SUBURBIA? What is a great, good place? Sociologist Ray Oldenburg uses this term to describe neighborhood gathering places where local people routinely hang out and socialize.1 Common examples include the corner pub, diner, coffee

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is Croxton Collaborative of New York, experts in green building. 28 Linda Saslow, “Nation’s ‘First Suburb’ Aims to Be Most ’Green.’” Chapter 4 1 Ray Oldenburg, The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Community Centers, Beauty Parlors, General Stores, Bars, Hangouts, and How They Get You through the Day (New York

The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry From Crop to the Last Drop

by Gregory Dicum and Nina Luttinger · 1 Jan 1999 · 230pp · 62,294 words

well-lit. No one is carded, and no one is drunk.4 Schultz makes much of the “Third Place,” a term coined by the sociologist Ray Oldenburg to describe the non-home, non-work environment that had once been the forum for public life but that had almost disappeared under the postwar

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Dori Jones Yang, Pour Your Heart into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time (New York: Hyperion, 1997), 120–21. 5 Ray Oldenburg, The Great Good Place (New York: Paragon House, 1989), 296. 6 Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report (New York: HarperBusiness, 1992), 39–40. 7 Unscrupulous blending

Road to ruin: an introduction to sprawl and how to cure it

by Dom Nozzi · 15 Dec 2003 · 282pp · 69,481 words

a place worth staying in. —Jim Kunstler The most important task of the urbanist is controlling size. —David Mohney As sociology professor and planning consultant Ray Oldenburg points out in The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Community Centers, Beauty Parlors, General Stores, Bars, Hangouts, and How They Get You Through the

Stacy Mitchell

by Big-Box Swindle The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses (2006)

the hall, Casablanca Comics, which serves as a second home to a crowd of comic book aﬁcionados. This cluster of local businesses constitutes what sociologist Ray Oldenburg has dubbed a “third place”—a place where people can put aside the concerns of home and work (the ﬁrst and second places) and ﬁnd

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writers, including Joanna Blythman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Liza Featherstone, Thom Hartmann, Jane Jacobs, Marjorie Kelly, David Korten, James Howard Kunstler, Greg LeRoy, David Morris, Al Norman, Ray Oldenburg, Eric Schlosser, E. F. Schumacher, and Michael Shuman. I want to thank David Korten, who ﬁrst suggested I write this book. My agent, Anna Ghosh

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, Oct. 5, 2005. 27. Store counts from Starbucks.com; Brad Wong, “Great Wall Breached: Starbucks Sets Up Shop,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Sept. 22, 2005. 28. Ray Oldenburg, The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coƒee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of Community, 2nd ed. (New York: Marlowe & Company