Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tjora, Aksel
• Tjora, A[Herausgeber]
• Scambler, G[Herausgeber]

Titel

Café Society [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2013

Ort / Verlag

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references pages (203-205) and index.
• Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Café as a Third Place; 2 Heart of Urbanism. The Café: A Chapter of Cultural History; 3 The Theory of the Café Central and the Practice of the Café Peripheral: Aspirational and Abject Infrastructures of Sociability on the; 4 Cafés, Third Places, and the Enabling Sector of Civil Society; 5 The Café Community; 6 Communal Awareness in the Urban Café; 7 Becoming a Barista; 8 Community and Social Interaction in the Wireless City: Wi-Fi use in Public and Semi-Public Spaces; 9 Design for Solitude
• 10 The City, the Café, and the Public Realm in AustraliaIndex
• While tracing the historical emergence of the café as a social institution and noting its multiple faces and functions in the modernity of the occident, three themes run like threads of varying texture through the chapters: the social connectivity and inclusion of cafés, café as surrogate office, and café as site of exchange for news and views.
• English