Third Place vs. Right to the City

Seems like everyone wants to talk about third place lately. Honestly, I don't really get it. Ray Oldenburg - the creator of the theory - was not progressive by most definitions and he built his theory off of strict masculinity rooted in misogyny and homophobia. I really don't like Ray Oldenburg and I'll show you exactly why in this video. And on top of that I'll give you something else to talk about - a more relevant theory called "The Right to the City," which is the idea that we control how the places we live change over time - not profit-seeking capitalists.
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Sources (in order of reference):

Ray Oldenburg - The Great Good Place, 1989 (Third edition: 1999): archive.org/details/greatgoodplaceca00olde_2

Ray Oldenburg - Celebrating the Third Place, 2001 (unfortunately I cannot find a readily-available pdf online, I got the E-book for this video. But also you would be better served in avoiding this one, it's terrible)

Karl Marx - Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844: www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscrip…

Leopold Schwarzschild - The Red Prussian, 1947: archive.org/details/redprussian0000schw

Erich Fromm - The Sane Society, 1956: historicalunderbelly.wordpress.com/wp-content/uplo…

Henri Lefebvre - "The Right to the City" (1968) from Writings on Cities, 1996: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/henri-lefebvre-rig…

David Harvey - "The Right to the City," 2008 newleftreview.org/issues/ii53/articles/david-harve…