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Making A Friend At The Cafe
- Julie met a woman at a cafe by repeatedly running into her and chatting while both worked on laptops.
- The cafe's primary purpose was to sell food and coffee, not to foster new relationships.
Social Infrastructure Shapes Public Life
- Social infrastructure means physical places and organizations that shape our capacity to interact.
- Strong social infrastructure makes people linger and creates familiar strangers who watch out for each other.
Community Strength Lowers Disaster Risk
- Klinenberg mapped Chicago heatwave deaths and found neighboring areas with very different outcomes.
- Neighborhoods with stronger public spaces and organizations had dramatically lower mortality.