"I thought of the Gem when I read Kaid Benfield in NRDC Switchboard, where he asked Does a sustainable community need a good drinking establishment? Kaid quotes Michael Hickey, who describes them as a form of "Third space" in his post In Praise of (Loud, Stinky) BarsThe full article can be read at treehugger.com:
We shouldn’t romanticize third spaces as only being about brightly lit cafes, pedestrianized streets, and the local public library. Bars work in their scruffy way by offering a place to get away from an overcrowded apartment or a squalid loft or a grimy job. They are a place where someone with little to spare can go for a change of pace.
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Monday, June 4, 2012
Every Complete Neighborhood Needs a Good Local Bar
Every Complete Neighborhood Needs a Good Local Bar : TreeHugger:
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