Achieving Post-Pandemic Community

Should ‘Third Places’ Lead the Way?

Chuck Wolfe
7 min readMar 4, 2024

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Reclaiming community in a “third place” Seattle pizzeria? Charles R. Wolfe photo

Today we move from “place triggers” (my last post) to creating positive places.

In the post-pandemic search for resurgent community connection, place activation, and purpose, the longstanding idea of third places is making a comeback.

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Chuck Wolfe

Charles R. Wolfe founded the Seeing Better Cities Group in Seattle and London to improve the conversation around how cities grow and evolve across the world.