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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English towns used to have "working men's clubs". Factory workers could afford to support a space for themselves. Groups like the Quakers set up their own churches. In today's economy, they've now become a property management business, with a few odd beliefs on the side.
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Replying to @anomalyuk
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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Replying to @PenelopeTayne
True, though less so in Britain than in the US.
11:28 AM - 8 Jun 2018
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