Introduction: The Sociology of the Cafe 1. The Cafe as a 'third place'; Ray Oldenburg 2. Heart of Urbanism. The Cafe - A Cultural History; Bodil Stenseth 3. The Theory of the Cafe Central and the Practice of the Cafe Peripheral: Aspirational and Abject Infrastructures of Sociability on the European Periphery; Paul Manning 4. Cafes, Third Places and the Enabling Sector of Civil Society ; Graham Scambler 5. The Cafe Community; Ida Marie Henriksen, Tomas Moe Skolsvold, and Ingeborg Gronning 6. Communal Awareness in the Urban Cafe; Aksel Tjora 7. Becoming a Barista; Eric Laurier 8. Community and Social Interaction in the Wireless City: Wi-fi Use in Public and Semi-public Spaces; Keith N. Hampton and Neeti Gupta 9. Design for Solitude; Erling Dokk Holm 10. The City, the Cafe and the Public Realm in Australia; Peter Walters and Alex Broom