A thriving main street is a cluster of third places. The coffee shop, the bookstore, the diner, the plaza that hosts festivals. These main streets give people a reason to linger, run into a neighbor ...

The loss of third places is one reason. In 2011, Richard Kyte, an ethics professor at Viterbo University, noticed that two of his colleagues were growing increasingly isolated. So he suggested they ...

Third places — cafes, community centers, and other public places that, as sociologist Ray Oldenburg observed, may increase communal ties by hosting “the regular, voluntary, informal, and happily ...

Many people spend most of their time at home and at work. Yet did you know there's actually a name for locations other than these two places-like cafes, bars, parks, and library-type settings where ...

College introduces us to a hectic version of life. In the bubble that is being a university student, our social lives are often smushed together with the academic and domestic spheres of college. This ...

People often visit malls, cafes, libraries and parks as their third places. However, these spaces may not always be ...

The World Health Organization reports loneliness contributes to more than 870,000 fatalities every year. Last year, an AARP survey found social isolation is felt by 40% of American adults, regardless ...