https://go.nebula.tv/notjustbikes to get a discounted subscription to Nebula (and support this channel, too)! The pub. The café. The town square. They’re not home. They’re not work. They’re something else. But these places are becoming more and more scarce. And in car-dependent suburbia, they've been erased almost completely … and that's a problem. Watch this video ad-free and sponsor-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-the-great-places-erased-by-suburbia-the-third-place Patreon: https://patreon.com/notjustbikes Twitter: https://twitter.com/notjustbikes Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/notjustbikes One-time donations: https://notjustbikes.com/donate NJB Live (my bicycle livestream channel): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9v57F4xz46KaDsvWfCv8yw Script by Nicole Conlan and Jason Slaughter --- References & Further Reading Do Yourself a Favor and Go Find a ‘Third Place’ https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/04/third-places-meet-new-people-pandemic/629468/ “Third places” as community builders https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2016/09/14/third-places-as-community-builders/ Public Places and Commercial Spaces: How Neighbourhood Amenities Foster Trust and Connection in American Communities American Community Life Survey https://www.americansurveycenter.org/research/public-places-and-commercial-spaces-how-neighborhood-amenities-foster-trust-and-connection-in-american-communities/ McDonald's: you can sneer, but it's the glue that holds communities together https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/mcdonalds-community-centers-us-physical-social-networks A Question About Friends Reveals a Lot About Class Divides https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/upshot/a-question-about-friends-reveals-a-lot-about-class-divides.html Do people really meet up at barbershops and just hang out, like on tv? If so, why is it in specifically barbershops that people hang out like that? https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnAmerican/comments/kl7vh8/do_people_really_meet_up_at_barbershops_and_just/ Some taking advantage of cooling centers amid scorching heat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L-2dpjQpEs East Baltimore Community Engagement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3BfP1zIfPw This video contains content licensed from Getty Images --- Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:31 What is a "Third Place"? 0:53 Our "local" in the UK 2:05 Why smaller apartments are OK 2:39 Cheers 3:16 Other benefits of the Third Places 5:01 How suburbia destroyed the Third Place 6:41 Stealing "keep off" signs 7:03 Faking the Third Places 7:37 Let's go to the mall! 8:30 The sterilized Third Place 8:56 The barber shop 9:16 What's left of the Third Place in America 9:53 Conclusion 11:02 Patreon Shout-out