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Fourth Places

Part of the The Urban Book Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-07946-7

ISBN: 978-3-031-07945-0

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Aug 27, 2022

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Introduction: Is Public Social Life in Decline and Are Contemporary Masterplanning and Public Space Design Practices to Be Blamed?

Aelbrecht, Patricia

Pages: 1 –6

[The introduction introduces the topic and contents of this book and is presented in four sections. The first section sets the context and debates that inspire this book, namely the decline in public social life and, in particular the decline in informal social interaction among strangers and how...
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A Theorization of Informal Public Social Life and Interaction in Urban Public Space

Aelbrecht, Patricia

Pages: 7 –52

[This chapter examines established and emerging theories, which describe contemporary informal public social life and interaction in urban public spaces. The aim of this chapter is to provide the contextual background for this book namely, to frame the main patterns and specific changes in urban...
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The Sociality and Spatiality of Social Encounters Among Strangers

Aelbrecht, Patricia

Pages: 53 –102

[This chapter proposes a theoretical framework to study the sociality and spatiality of social encounters among strangers, in other words, the types of social behaviours and spatial mechanics that constitute those encounters. Its aim is to identify the concepts, methods, and techniques that can...
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Observations on the Theorized Conditions That Support Informal Social Interactions in New Designed Public Spaces

Aelbrecht, Patricia

Pages: 103 –174

[This chapter employs empirical material to examine five well-accepted and theorized conditions in sociology that are considered to support informal social life and interaction: ‘people-watching’, events, thresholds, ‘open regions’, and ‘triangulation’. It contends that despite arising primarily...
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Observations on the Under-Theorized Conditions that Support Informal Social Interactions in New Designed Public Spaces

Aelbrecht, Patricia

Pages: 175 –222

[This chapter introduces three types of optimal spaces for informal social life—circulation, controlled, and congested spaces—which unlike the previous conditions are not well-documented or accepted in sociology or urban design. Ultimately, they are targets of the current critiques of urban...
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‘Fourth Places’: the Contemporary Public Settings for Informal Social Life and Interaction

Aelbrecht, Patricia

Pages: 223 –237

[This chapter brings together the findings from the previous two chapters linking them back to the existing theories. It argues that social encounters among strangers still occur in new designed public settings. However, the types of spatial settings and conditions in which these encounters occur...

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