In the days before air conditioning, easy indoor home entertainment, and automatic garage door openers, neighborhoods connected to each other on America’s
In the days before air conditioning, easy indoor home entertainment, and automatic garage door openers, neighborhoods connected to each other on America’s front porches and back yards. They relaxed and talked, sometimes for hours, with a drink, a cigarette, or a plate of food from the grill. Now, we’re living in a time when nearly everyone drives out of their garages in the morning and back in at night. During the week they might not see the people they live next to at all. If they do, it’s probably from behind windshield glass.
The benefits of these alternative gathering spots; “THIRD SPACES”.