Ray Oldenburg (1989) developed the concept of third places as environments that offer friendship and a sense of community. However, the idealized image of the coffee house may need revision. In recent decades coffee houses have transformed from small-scale businesses to corporate-owned...

The transformation of European demographics is the result of two main processes: on the one hand, the "extension" of inhabited spaces (without exaggerating, the entire Europe can now be represented as a single, immense urban entity); on the other hand, an apparently contradictory process, namely...

Los trabajos sobre áreas urbanas tropiezan con la dificultad de delimitar con cierta precisión el alcance de las mismas. No existe un consenso entre los estudiosos de los procesos de urbanización sobre la manera de definirlas y, en consecuencia, hay varias alternativas. La mayoría de...