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Ruth Cuadra

The third space: the cafe's place in forming modern Japan | The Japan Times Online - 1 views

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    Cafes, then, are both a product of modernity and, through the space they provide for new ideas to develop, a driver of modernity.
Ruth Cuadra

Being on a Smartphone Makes You More Likely to Use Public Spaces-Kinda - 0 views

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    Smartphones "enable" us to stick around longer in public because they're now an extension of our private spaces. (and free WiFi too!)
Ruth Cuadra

The Future of the Stacks - 3 views

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    If libraries were to disappear, cities and towns would lose essential "third places" that are open to the public.
Carol Tang

Mothership HackerMoms | Ideas. Projects. Comrades. Childcare. - 0 views

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    interesting third space for moms. classes, equipment, childcare. First hackerspace for women they say.
David Bloom

You Are Here - 1 views

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    Three maps depicting the "walkingsheds" of cafes in Cambridge, San Francisco, and Brooklyn. An interesting look at the possible areas of influence of specific Third Spaces.
Ruth Cuadra

S.F.'s uncommon areas: Plazas created from scraps of urban land - 1 views

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    I love this quote with "city" replaced by "museum": Yet the aspirations of a [museum] can also be measured in smaller scraps of land - the remnant spaces that often are blighted or ignored, but with imaginative design and care have the potential to be destinations.
Ruth Cuadra

Museum 2.0: What I Learned about Strangers from Jane Jacobs on my Winter Vacation - 2 views

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    From the blog: How do we "design for strangers"? Can people be "alone" and "together" just as easily in a space? From a comments: "we talk so much about the activities and the look and feel of places and don't spend nearly enough time thinking about the sound of a place"
Ruth Cuadra

Third Space Encounters: Hybridity, Mimicry and Interstitial Practice - 0 views

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    The social encounter is a particular kind of meeting from which a wide range of different responses may emerge (e.g., confusion, misunderstandings, tension,trauma, and possibly social change)
Gina Hall

Zócalo Public Square :: Why On Earth Am I Looking At This? - 0 views

  • Most Museums Have Trouble Connecting To the Public. Maybe It's Time For Some New Ideas.
  • underprepared for their pending encounter with the visual arts
  • many audience members seem intuitively aware of what is missing: more access to the story explaining how and why a work has arrived at this place for their enjoyment.
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  • soldiering through the galleries and paying minimal attention to the exhibits prepared expressly for their viewing
  • reanimated by the opportunities to engage in eating, spending, and talking on the phone—activities compatible with a sidewalk stroll.
  • critical message about the socializing function of the city
  • There is scientific data, too, upon which to build an argument for ensuring that we do better by our museum guests.
  • participation in the arts, especially as audience, predicted civic engagement, tolerance, and altruism.”
  • “[T]he space of the art museum is an inherently public or civic space,” wrote Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art, in a recent essay. “Art museums in this context need to be understood as quintessentially urban institutions that play a critical role in defining the intellectual and physical fabric of cities and towns.”
Ruth Cuadra

Downtown L.A. Has Arrived, Believe It or Not « Zócalo Public Square - 0 views

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    So how can downtown activate spaces like the plaza-and Grand Park? ... park designers knew they'd have to rely on programming to get people in for the first time
Ruth Cuadra

Project for Public Spaces | Leadership Spotlight: Marisa Novara on Making the Case for ... - 1 views

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    What are the places that draw people together and create a sense of community? They want a way to feel connected to other people in the place that they share.
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