Introduction: The Sociology of the Café 1. The Café as a 'third place'; Ray Oldenburg 2. Heart of Urbanism. The Café - A Cultural History; Bodil Stenseth 3. The Theory of the Café Central and the Practice of the Café Peripheral: Aspirational and Abject Infrastructures of Sociability on the European Periphery; Paul Manning 4. Cafés, Third Places and the Enabling Sector of Civil Society ; Graham Scambler 5. The Café Community; Ida Marie Henriksen, Tomas Moe Skølsvold, and Ingeborg Grønning 6. Communal Awareness in the Urban Café; 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 Café and the Public Realm in Australia; Peter Walters and Alex Broom