Seems like everyone wants to talk about third place lately. Honestly, I don't really get it. Ray Oldenburg - the creator of the theory - was not progressive ...

Seems like everyone wants to talk about third place lately. Honestly, I don’t really get it. Ray Oldenburg - the creator of the theory - was not progressive by most definitions and he built his theory off of strict masculinity rooted in misogyny and homophobia. I really don’t like Ray Oldenburg and I’ll show you exactly why in this video. And on top of that I’ll give you something else to talk about - a more relevant theory called “The Right to the City,” which is the idea that we control how the places we live change over time - not profit-seeking capitalists.

Sources (in order of reference):

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Ray Oldenburg - The Great Good Place, 1989 (Third edition: 1999): https://archive.org/details/greatgoodplaceca00olde_2

Ray Oldenburg - Celebrating the Third Place, 2001 (unfortunately I cannot find a readily-available pdf online, I got the E-book for this video. But also you would be better served in avoiding this one, it’s terrible)

Karl Marx - Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm

Leopold Schwarzschild - The Red Prussian, 1947: https://archive.org/details/redprussian0000schw

Erich Fromm - The Sane Society, 1956: https://historicalunderbelly.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/erich-fromm-the-sane-society.pdf

Henri Lefebvre - “The Right to the City” (1968) from Writings on Cities, 1996: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/henri-lefebvre-right-to-the-city

David Harvey - “The Right to the City,” 2008 https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii53/articles/david-harvey-the-right-to-the-city