People generally have an idea of what kind of life they want to live. Those of us who crave solitude may want a quiet and private life, maybe self-sufficient on a homestead. Those of us who are community-driven may want to live in a walkable community with plenty of accessible public spaces.
This article is about those community spaces. Popscience has coined a name for these spaces, the “Third Space.” The term has picked up steam in political spaces as a way to criticize the commodification of the human experience, and capitalism as a whole.