Ray Oldenburg wrote the influential book about this topic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place I read it years

Ray Oldenburg wrote the influential book about this topic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place I read it years ago so I'm less familiar with how it's viewed today (with the rise of virtual third places).