The Coffee Shop: Social and Physical factors Influencing ...

Journal of InterIor DesIgnVolume 31 Number 3 200635introDuctionResearchers Unger and Wandersman (1985) discussed the importance of the community to the human Social , emotional, and cognitive experiences. Rivlin (1987) explained that the connections to community create a bond between people and place in which people and place are molded into a whole. Although the value of place and community seems clear, there has been much Social commentary regarding the decreasing ability of people to connect with their communities and the peo-ple who live among them (fleming and Von Tscharner, 1987; Lippard, 1997; Putnam, 2000: Stumpf, 1998). In Bowling Alone, which addressed the collapse and re-vival of American community, Putnam (2000) discussed the increasing disconnect from family, friends, neigh-bors, and Social structure. He reviewed the concept of Social capital, which he defined as the connections among individuals Social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them (p.)

factors Influencing Place Attachment aBstract This study explored the characteristics that encourage gathering behavior and contribute to place attachment in selected coffee shops in the context of literature suggesting social gathering places contribute to social capital. These gathering places, with the potential to enhance community in

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