Suburbs vs Third Places?

3rd World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering, Architecture, Urban Planning Symposium

土木建筑工程;文学

Kepkowicz, Agnieszka^1 ; Lipiska, Halina^1 ; Mantey, Dorota^2

Department of Grassland and Landscape Planning, Faculty of Agrobioengineering, University of Life Sciences, ul. Akademicka 15, Lublin

20-950, Poland^1

Department of Urban Geography and Spatial Management, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiecie 30, Warszawa

00-927, Poland^2

关键词: Personal interaction;    Public space;    Social ties;    Space between;    Third places;    Urban planners;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/471/9/092078/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/471/9/092078

学科分类：土木及结构工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

In the shaping of suburban public space, a lot of attention is devoted to creating places enabling the strengthening of social ties, which is consistent with the ideas of integration and cohesion advocated by sociologists and urban planners. The so-called Third Places fit this description; they constitute the space between home and work, where we rest among friends and make ourselves visible to others. However, the previously conducted research indicates that the possibility of isolating oneself and living within the family is frequently the reason why residents of present-day suburbs choose such places. This means that the suburbs are becoming a space for recreation in a very restricted company or in outright solitude. The objective of the present study was to analyse the preferred forms and places of recreation, and the kind of personal interactions and relationships established by the inhabitants of suburban communities. During the study, several forms of preferred activities were distinguished, namely spending one's free time on one's own, which includes walks (also with a child or dog -