Coffee shop community ? [test2] | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Fred H. Olson (fholsoncohousing.org) | |
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 07:27:12 -0600 (MDT) |
I heard an interview on public radio this morning with the founder of Caribou Coffee shops (fairly big locally at least). One of his comments was something like: Neighborhood coffee shops are popular now in part because more people work in home offices and businesses but they still want / need social contact with other people during the work day so they go to the coffee shop. I bring this up because I wonder how true it is. Do coffee shops serve as community building / gathering places (rather than just places to buy and consume coffee)? If so, how does this social contact compare to that in a cohousing community? Clearly it is much more limited but I think it could (if it is comparable to the kind of interaction that takes place in British pubs - "the local" ) be put on the other end from cohousing of a community building institution continum of some sort. One of the possible (minor?) explanations for the minimal amount of cohousing activity in the Twin Cities I speculate, is that we have relatively more opportunities for social contact than some places. We have many relatively liveable neighborhoods, many community organizations, (organizations of all kinds - the land of 10,000 organizations), block clubs, parks and park buildings with organized activities. Social contact takes place at all of these. To what degree does that reduce the felt need for intentioal community like cohousing? Fred (who does not drink coffee and rarely goes in coffee houses) [Test2 note about cohousing-L : ] This message is also in part related to the suspicious lack of messages over the list in the last 36 hours. My first test went thru and one other message has come thru but still... I did not think to mention in my previous test about if you have clear evidence of a problem... If you send (have sent) a message to the cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org and you dont get a copy back via the list server in a short while (worst case 15 minutes (?)): 1) check the address to which you sent it 2) look for a "reject message" typically because you sent it from and address other than your subscribed address (if so write me) 3) if these were not the problem, send me a copy and a note. -- Fred H. Olson fholson [at] cohousing.org Minneapolis,MN 55411 (612)588-9532 Amateur radio: WB0YQM List manager of: Cohousing-L and Nbhd-tc (Twin Cities Neighborhood issues list) More info: http://www.mtn.org/~fholson/sig-detail.htm
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Coffee shop community ? [test2] Fred H. Olson, April 27 2000
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