What we left behind

We knocked down the load-bearing walls and called it progress. This week Keith and Gerren dig into what we actually gave up — the third place, intergenerational family, shared child rearing, the male social ecosystem, and the spaces where doctor, lawyer, janitor, and teacher used to just exist together without any of that mattering. Ray Oldenburg coined the term "third place" in 1989. In 1990,…