Author Profile: Ray Oldenburg
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Ray Oldenburg's influential book The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community was recognized as a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. Dr. Oldenburg is also the author of Celebrating the Third Place and Parallel Utopias: The Quest for Community. Dr. Oldenburg's articles include "Dining Out," "Bars and Pubs," "Our Vanishing ‘Third Places,’" "Food, Drink, Talk, and the Third Place," and "People Need Hangouts," and "There Was a Tavern in the Town..."
The Project for Public Spaces honors Dr. Oldenburg as one of the pioneering thinkers listed in its hall of influential urban "PlaceMakers."
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Why No Department of Pedestrians?Posted in Feature 2, Ideas, Urban Planning on 10 November 2009
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A city for pedestrians, which is what all the great cities were, is now remote from our thinking. Indeed, many of our “traffic experts” view the pedestrian as the major problem in urban traffic flow.
Obituary for the American NeighborhoodPosted in Feature 2, Ideas, Urban Planning on 8 October 2009
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The American neighborhood died after World War II, writes author and urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg. And with it went our “Third Places.”
