Hipster gentrification. a defence: suburbs lack inner city’s third places.

Hipsters have an uneasy place in our cultural landscape, not least their role in gentrification.
Third Spaces can be an effective remedy to urban loneliness.

Third places can help alleviate urban loneliness by creating or enhancing a sense of community on a smaller, more human scale.
More than milk and bread, corner stores could rebuild neighbourhoods.

Once an icon of suburban Australia, many neighbourhood corner stores vanished in the face of unrelenting competition from large supermarkets.



