The Promise of Human Contact
Mar 20, 2009 | 20 Comments
The following photos from Taipei's Eslite Bookstore - one of the world's most comfortable large bookstore spaces for hanging out, reading and human watching. Not that I have a photo to hand - but most convenience stores in Japan have magazine racks inside the glass fronted window - the people browsing the rack are a draw for anyone outside - a big hit in a 24 hour city where an increasing number of people live in small single-occupancy apartments.
Los Angeles is a city where most people hop from island to island in single occupancy vehicles and the promise of honest-to-allah human contact in this environment is a particularly juicy draw - the prime 'corner-office' real estate of the local Border's book store includes a magazine section with deep-window ledge seating, strewn magazines and littered with the bodies of breathing. fleshy. people. The pace, variety and lack of pressure to buy makes book and magazine racks sticky, the clustering of humans makes them stickier.
I'm not a believer in the discount-coffee-voucher-to-your-phone location based advertising this being a particularly bad example of the genre. But we're not too far from someone offering a mainstream compelling you-here-in-this-space-now service.
Is there a point when book stores offer online services that leverage people's deeper driver's i.e. Border's make's more from online match making services than the magazine's themselves? And given the potential for real time awareness (think Sense Networks+) what factors increase the likelihood of creating an ad-hoc honeypot?
Your recommendations for best people watching shops in your city?
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20 Comments
Big Bazaar in India is a good place to see people. People from all ages, races, backgrounds come over at Big Bazaar to shop for their grocery and living requirements.
Its so much entertaining to see them there.
in san francisco, amoeba is a large used/new music/records/movies store with a huge selection of both music and people.
http://www.amoeba.com/
Eslite bookstore is definitely more than a bookstore. It is a hub, meeting place and the most popular hang out destination in Taiwan. Chinese loves books, it's so ingrained in their culture. I wonder if this 24 hours, multi level bookstore model will work in the US. I look forward to making such suggestion to my friend after dinner.. "Hey let's go to the bookstore and hang out!"
I happen to love watching people going... or comming. I usually try to find the public transportation hubs in any city.
Watching people coming and going can give you some valuable information about the place you have arrived at your self. Looking at how the city itself has evolved around the hubs are also great spaces for information.
My prefered place in Copenhagen is called "Nokken". It is one of those kind of precious but shrinking spaces, that a lot of European cities have. It is being eaten little by little by cityplanning, hip plazas and modern architecture. But Nokken holds out even under siege, with cranky men, tending their struggling little boats and gardens, empty bottles everywhere and real, thought provoking art and graffiti meddling with trash and vulgar scribling on the walls of the now-almost-empty industrial buildings. Love it!
/Jacob
I live in St. Paul, Minnesota - the place for people watching is the Mall of America, the biggest mall in the United States. (yes, it's trite, but as malls go it's pretty awesome.)
The crowds include locals from a fairly broad cross-section of society, people who've driven in from surrounding rural areas (MN, ND, SD, WI, and IA), and also domestic and international tourists.
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