Urbanism
On the Death of the Third Place
The café, the bar, the barbershop — the spaces that made urban life livable are disappearing. What's replacing them is worse than nothing.
Gabriel Santos3 min · April 3, 2026
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São Paulo / Lisbon
Gabriel writes on urbanism, gentrification, and the slow disappearance of the third place. He walks cities for a living and takes notes on what he finds.