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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Third Places"”.
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Student satisfaction and involvement with third places at a university
<p>This study explored student understanding of third places at the University of the Pacific. As colleges and universities seek to develop the whole student, providing students places that develop a sense ofbelongingness will contribute to their social development. Research has also shown that …
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Third Places as Alternative Spaces of Cultural Production and Consumption in the Neoliberal Creative City
… and mid-sized Canadian cities multi-purpose third places are valuable alternative socio-cultural and spatial resources that are under-appreciated in municipal cultural governance.
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Social Virtual Environments as ‘Third Places’: Co-Designing Socio-Relational Spaces For Autistic Young Adults
… environments can function as conditional “third places” - accessible social contexts that support connection, identity expression, and community formation for autistic individuals. Rather than emphasizing social skills training alone, the research highlights the importance of designing …
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Spatial qualities of innovation districts : how Third Places are changing the innovation ecosystem of Kendall Square
… built form of Kendall Square reveals that workplaces for the high-tech industry have extended beyond the conventional office setting to include both retail and public spaces: such as cafes, restaurants; and streets, sidewalks, plazas, and open spaces. I label these emerging workplaces as "Third …
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Understanding Urban Vibrancy and Third Places: A Computational Study of the Social Life of Cities Through Multi-Source Digital Trace Data
… settings—particularly those associated with third places—remain comparatively under-explored in computational urban research. This thesis investigates how large-scale digital data can be integrated with urban theory to improve understanding of urban activity patterns and their relationship …
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Socioeconomic Diversity in Public Spaces
… and economic integration. These spaces serve as third places, or social spaces where community members regularly visit, similar to their regular visitation of their home and workplaces. In the City of Roanoke, three visited public parks serve as local third places where individuals of different …
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The Social Transformation of Coffee Houses: The Emergence of Chain Establishments and the Private Nature of Usage
… is given to Ray Oldenburg's (1989) concept of third places as environments that offer visitors friendship and a sense of community. However, given that coffee houses have moved from small-scale businesses to chain-owned and many people now use them to work on laptops, this idealized image of …
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Professional Wrestling and Myth
… American civic life. Churches functioned as the third places (besides work and home) where people can find a community and reaffirm community values. The decline of sacred mythic heroes provides an opportunity for new heroes to be born. In the search for third places, people found community …
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Preparing urban mobility for the future of work: impacts and adaptation
… important findings is that approximately one-third of all remote work takes place outside of the home, at other work-friendly third places such as coffee shops and libraries. Many personal factors are found to be predictive of the choice of work location, including household characteristics …
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Perceptions of Transportation Mobility Among Afghan Refugee Women
… reliance on social networks, a desire for third places and sense of independence and freedom. This study hopes to shed light on the lived experiences of Afghan women, an underrepresented population in mobility studies. The findings from this preliminary study also seek to inform cities with …
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Doing Italian as a Foreign Language: investigating talk about language and culture in three British university classrooms
… represented in their classes, creating „third places‟ for language teaching/learning. The research also reveals differences between the teachers – in their views of language, their representation of Italian „culture‟ and in the classroom identities they assumed. These differences are …
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Making a Difference? European Union’s Response to Conflict and Mass Atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (1994-2009)
… EU intervention for human protection purposes in third places. Second, the ESDP supposedly enabled the EU to make a difference in its response to two bloody wars that broke out in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) successively in 1996 and 1998. This thesis argues that the alleged added …
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Making a Difference? European Union’s Response to Conflict and Mass Atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (1994-2009)
… EU intervention for human protection purposes in third places. Second, the ESDP supposedly enabled the EU to make a difference in its response to two bloody wars that broke out in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) successively in 1996 and 1998. This thesis argues that the alleged added …
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Collective innovation spaces in Shanghai : spatial patterns and social life/
… clusters. Development of CIS and the thriving third places, which are privatized social spaces other than home and workspaces, generate an innovation network that facilitates social interactions, innovation, and entrepreneurship. It represents a new kind of urban development in China, …
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Educating 'Gangsters': Social space, informal learning and becoming 'Gang' involved
… stories, social haunting and reflection within third places and the wider community; occurs under structural conditions but is mediated by agentive choice; social space fosters a community spirit and offers the opportunity to become someone.
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Cooking Together: Form & Function of Community Kitchen as Urban ‘Third Place’ Promoting Community Wellbeing
… has surged in recent years, with nearly one-third of the world population experiencing food insecurity between 2020-2022. Malnutrition remains a leading cause of death globally, making food access a major determinant of health. Cities are increasingly grappling with challenges as urban …
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Aging Alone, Together: Older Adult ICT Use, Health, and Place during the COVID-19 Pandemic
… new obstacles to socializing: the closure of third places (e.g., libraries, coffee shops) and increased risk of serious illness. Information and communication technology (ICT) was widely adopted during this time to facilitate daily activities and social connection, but the extent to which it …
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The developing role of the university library as a student learning commons: Implications to the interior spaces within
… within the university community (Hisle, 2005). Third places are "public places on neutral ground where people can gather and interact. The character of a third place is determined most of all by its regular clientele and is marked by a playful mood, which contrasts with people's more serious …
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Can Urban Gardening be a Case for Neighborhood Infrastructure Reparation The Case for Cambridge, Massachusetts
… fosters civic life (what sociologists call a “third place”). They are not the solution for all urban problems but can enhance the livability of our neighborhoods. This thesis analyzes the potential of urban food gardens in Cambridge, Massachusetts, drawing on the Cambridge Mobile Data Set to …