Third place
52 places in the atlas
Traditional or popular social infrastructure that works as a third place without ever having used the name: public baths, markets, shopping streets, gastronomic societies, old communal institutions.
Japan9
First Makishi Public Market第一牧志公設市場
Naha, Okinawa · Okinawa
"Okinawa's kitchen": a municipal market of over 70 stalls with the mochiage system (buy the produce and have it cooked upstairs), reopened in 2023 as…
VerifiedSee place →Third placeSpaceInari-yu / Sento & Neighborhood稲荷湯
Kita, Tokio · Kanto
The NPO Sento & Neighborhood is restoring this 1930 bathhouse (on the WMF 2020 Watch List) and turned an adjacent century-old nagaya into a community…
VerifiedSee place →Third placeNeighbourhood or villageKarahori Shotengai空堀商店街
Osaka · Kansai
An 800-metre shopping street that survived the 1945 bombings, with machiya converted into complexes of cafés, galleries and shops (Ren, Sou, Hoju).
VerifiedSee place →Third placeSpaceKosugiyu小杉湯
Suginami, Tokio · Kanto
A neighbourhood sento reinvented as an intergenerational third place: themed baths, collaborations with artists and community programmes.
VerifiedSee place →Civic labs and participationProjectKumano Travel / Tanabe田辺市熊野ツーリズムビューロー
Tanabe, Wakayama · Kansai
A community tourism office, the first half-public half-private entity of its kind in Japan, connecting local businesses along the Kumano Kodo with in…
VerifiedSee place →Participatory urbanismNeighbourhood or villagemachimori / Atami Ginza熱海銀座
Atami, Shizuoka · Chubu
Bottom-up regeneration of central Atami after its tourism bubble collapsed: vacant premises renovated by young entrepreneurs and "renovation machizuk…
VerifiedSee place →Spain4
Casa Grande del Pumarejo
Sevilla · Andalusia
An 18th-century palace inhabited and defended by its neighbours as a community house: living heritage, a popular school, a solidarity pantry.
VerifiedSee place →Third placeProjectConcejos abiertos y facenderas
Montaña leonesa · Castile and León
Neighbourhood assemblies (concejo abierto) and communal works (facendera, hacendera) that still govern hundreds of small municipalities and commonly…
Partially verifiedSee place →Third placeProjectSociedades gastronómicas (txokos)
Donostia · Basque Country
Collective kitchens where members cook, eat and talk as equals: the vernacular gastronomic third place par excellence, with over a century of history.
Partially verifiedSee place →Third placeProjectTribunal de las Aguas
Valencia · Valencian Community
The customary court that settles the huerta's irrigation disputes in the street, orally and in minutes, and has done so for a millennium.
VerifiedSee place →France4
Écolieu La Filerie
Fresnes · Centre-Val de Loire
A resource space for ecological transition in the Sologne, created in November 2019 by a group of residents of Loir-et-Cher around a vegetable garden…
VerifiedSee place →Third placeSpaceLe Champ Commun
Augan · Bretagne
A cooperative created in late 2009 in Augan, a village of 1,500 people in central Brittany, to sustain local shops in a rural area affected by the di…
VerifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancySpaceLe Quartier Libre
Rouen · Normandie
An 8,000 m² plot on the left bank of Rouen, occupied since 2019 by the Friche Lucien and relaunched in 2022 as Le Quartier Libre, pending works for t…
Partially verifiedSee place →Commons and belongingSpaceU Chjosu di a VignarellaU Chjosu di a Vignarella
Vico · Corse
A former hayloft of the Jeanne d'Arc care home for older people in Vico, refurbished since 2021 as a third place open to the whole village, winner of…
VerifiedSee place →Italy13
Casa del Popolo Il ProgressoCircolo Il Progresso
Florencia (FI) · Toscana
The Casa del Popolo Il Progresso was founded in 1915 in the Florentine district of Rifredi as a workers' recreational society and moved in 1922 to th…
VerifiedSee place →Third placeSpaceCircolo Arci Guernelli
Bolonia (BO) · Emilia-Romagna
The Circolo Arci Guernelli has operated since 1945 as a meeting point for the San Donato district in Bologna.
Partially verifiedSee place →Third placeProjectComunanza Agraria di Santo Stefano dei Piccioni
Foligno (PG) · Umbria
The Comunanza Agraria di Santo Stefano dei Piccioni manages land of medieval origin in a small hamlet of Foligno, in Umbria, with usi civici rights g…
Partially verifiedSee place →Third placeSpaceFamiglia Cooperativa di Rovere della Luna
Rovere della Luna (TN) · Trentino-Alto Adige
The Famiglia Cooperativa di Rovere della Luna is a village cooperative shop active since 1905, heir to the model that the priest Don Lorenzo Guetti p…
VerifiedSee place →Third placeProjectLe Regole del Comelico
Comelico Superiore (BL) · Veneto
The Regole del Comelico are at once a patrimony of woods, meadows and pastures and the community of regolieri who own and manage it collectively and…
Partially verifiedSee place →Third placeProjectMagnifica Comunita di Fiemme
Cavalese (TN) · Trentino-Alto Adige
The Magnifica Comunità di Fiemme collectively and indivisibly administers around 20,000 hectares of woods and pastures in the Val di Fiemme, a right…
VerifiedSee place →Thailand12
a.e.y.space
Songkhla · South
Small gallery in two shophouses on Nang Ngam Road, at the heart of Songkhla's old town, with an exhibition room downstairs and an artist residency up…
VerifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancySpaceHub Ho Hin, el molino rojoโรงสีแดง ฮับ โฮ่ ฮิน
Songkhla · South
Steam rice mill founded in 1914 by Songkhla's inner harbour, later a Japanese medical store during the occupation, an ice factory and a fishing pier.
Partially verifiedSee place →Third placeNeighbourhood or villageKad Kong Taกาดกองต้า
Lampang · North
Former river port neighbourhood of the teak trade on the Wang river, with Lanna, Chinese, Burmese and colonial-style houses.
Partially verifiedSee place →Participatory urbanismSpaceKhlong Ong Angคลองโอ่งอ่าง
Bangkok (Phra Nakhon y Samphanthawong) · Bangkok
A 1783 canal on the edge of the historic core that the Bangkok administration cleaned up and turned in 2020 into a 1.5 km promenade with a pedestrian…
Partially verifiedSee place →Commons and belongingNeighbourhood or villageKhlong Toeiชุมชนคลองเตย
Bangkok (Khlong Toei) · Bangkok
Bangkok's largest cluster of informal settlements, built on port land.
Partially verifiedSee place →Third placeNeighbourhood or villageKudichinชุมชนกุฎีจีน
Bangkok (Thon Buri) · Bangkok
A riverside neighbourhood in Thonburi born after the fall of Ayutthaya in 1767, where Buddhist temples, the Catholic Santa Cruz church of the Portugu…
VerifiedSee place →Laos10
Big Brother Mouseອ້າຍຫນູນ້ອຍ
Luang Prabang · North
A publisher of children's books in Lao, also free to download, that holds book parties in schools and, according to its website, now runs nine school…
Partially verifiedSee place →Third placeSpaceChao Anouvong Parkສວນເຈົ້າອະນຸວົງ
Vientiane (Chanthabouly) · Vientiane
A riverside park opened in 2010 on land reclaimed from the Mekong, under a South Korean-funded project whose second phase ended in 2026.
VerifiedSee place →Third placeNeighbourhood or villageLuang Prabangຫຼວງພະບາງ
Luang Prabang · North
A historic town between the Mekong and the Nam Khan, with its monasteries and the neighbourhoods (ban) that live around them, World Heritage since 19…
VerifiedSee place →Participatory urbanismSpaceNam Phouສວນນ້ຳພຸຊຽງຍືນ
Vientiane (Chanthabouly) · Vientiane
A square with a fountain on the old esplanade of the morning market.
VerifiedSee place →Third placeSpaceTalat Dao Heuangຕະຫຼາດດາວເຮືອງ
Pakse · South
The largest market in southern Laos, next to the Lao-Japanese bridge in Pakse, with fresh produce, river fish, food, textiles and household goods fro…
Partially verifiedSee place →Third placeSpaceTalat Khua Dinຕະຫຼາດຂົວດິນ
Vientiane (Sisattanak) · Vientiane
A wholesale and fresh produce market next to the morning market, opening before dawn with an almost entirely local clientele.
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Rennes · France
Tenth edition, co-organised with LabFab, under the theme 'Des makers et des lieux face à l'urgence': how fablabs and maker spaces respond to climate,…
OngoingSee the event →15 to 18 October 2026Third places and tiers-lieuxConfluenze. Camp Abitiamo Lo Stato dei Luoghi, Ferrara 2026
Ferrara · Italy
The network's autumn camp in Ferrara, titled Confluenze and focused on the human and more-than-human communities of hybrid spaces.
See the event →22 to 25 October 2026Third places and tiers-lieuxTEH102 Camp Meeting, SilandroTEH102 Camp Meeting in Silandro / Schlanders
Silandro (Schlanders) · Italy
Autumn Camp Meeting at BASIS Vinschgau Venosta, a social innovation hub in a former barracks in South Tyrol, under the theme 'GRINTA! Under Ground: g…
See the event →What they share: They have sustained everyday encounter since long before the phrase third place existed, and today they are civic infrastructure at risk or in reinvention.