Thought on the land-use / housing-price thing: Overpriced urban land makes it more difficult for people to form bottom-up institutions. All "shared spaces" have to produce a rent.
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Don't forget the vast change in land use policy. Not only is it harded for such third places to spring up for the aformentioned reasons but when housing is dependent on the private automobile the population served becames greatly dispersed.
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True, though less so in Britain than in the US.
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