### Problem
>The street cafe provides a unique setting, special to cities: a place where people can sit lazily, legitimately, be on view, and watch the world go by.

### Solution
>Encourage local cafes to spring up in each neighborhood. Make them intimate places, with several rooms, open to a busy path, where people can sit with coffee or a drink and watch the world go by. Build the front of the cafe so that a set of tables stretch out of the cafe, right into the street.

### Related Patterns
... neighborhoods are defined by I[[Identifiable Neighborhood (14)]]; their natural points of focus are given by [[Activity Nodes (30)]] and [[Small Public Squares (61)]]. This pattern, and the ones which follow it, give the neighborhood and its points of focus, their identity. 

Build a wide, substantial opening between the terrace and the indoors - [[Opening to the Street (165)]]; make the terrace double as [[A Place to Wait (150)]] for nearby bus stops and offices; both indoors and on the terrace use a great variety of different kinds of chairs and tables - [[Different Chairs (251)]]; and give the terrace some low definition at the street edge if it is in danger of being interrupted by street action - [[Stair Seats (125)]], [[Sitting Wall (243)]], perhaps a [[Canvas Roofs (244)]]. For the shape of the building, the terrace, and the surroundings, begin with [[Building Complex (95)]] ...

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> [!cite]- Alexander, Christopher. _A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction_. Oxford University Press, 1977, p. 436.
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