The other book consistently on my table, it's a short, but time consuming read. It set up a whole new way of analysing the city, by arguing that the urban environemnet has been commodified by capitalism and the acceses to not only the space and reseources, but also the governance of the city had become innacisble to most people.
If you are interested in discussions around third spaces I would highly recommend picking this one up, it goes way beyond the idea of having spaces to interact and form community, but hihglights the city as a space of political dispute and the possibilities of the people to self determine the terms of urban life.
