To stand out, retailers are reimagining stores as "third places"—spaces outside the home and workplace where people feel ...

A new report explains the need for a resurgence of third places in Connecticut and provides recommendations on how to create more places where people can socialize in the state. The Capitol Region ...

Shared spaces at USC, such as the Tutor Campus Center, promote free social interaction and community-building outside of home and work. (Tai Lyn Sandhu / Daily Trojan) If you ask me, the best thing ...

A concept originally coined by sociologist Ray Oldenburg, a third place is a place separate from the home, your first place, and work or school, your second place. It is where you spend time in ...

The key to social well-being might lie in finding your “third place.” Here’s why these social hubs are essential for happiness in an increasingly lonely world. Between the demands of work and the ...

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 ...

That’s what its CEO, Brian Niccol, proclaimed in an October earnings call, after the coffee giant suffered a slide in sales and store traffic. He was echoing a statement he had made when he started ...

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 ...