// Disciplines
Urban Studies
6 topics
- Cafés and Coffee Shops
About Choosing Place Over Coffee Taste in Cafés
This question re-examines the priority between 'taste' and 'place' in choosing cafés. In the era of specialty coffee, what does it mean to c…
- Cafe & Coffee Shop
The Cafe as a Place to Protect One's Solitary Time
The 'cafe as a place to protect one's solitary time' questions why we seek to secure time alone in cafes, and the symbolic and practical mea…
- Cafe & Coffee Shop
Which Feels More Comfortable: Chain Cafes or Independent Cafes?
'Which feels more comfortable: chain stores or independent stores?' reexamines which provides a greater sense of 'comfort' — national chain …
- Conceptual Fashion
How Does Fashion Change Between Runway and Street
How does fashion change between the runway and the street? This question asks how fashion transforms between the 'space of presentation' and…
- Kissaten and Cafes
Why Do We Feel Calm in Spaces Where We Can Hear Other People's Conversations?
'A space where other people's conversations can be heard' refers to the state in third places like kissaten or cafes where fragments of conv…
- Cafe & Coffee Shop
Is Working at a Cafe Concentration or Escape?
Is working at a cafe an active choice to enhance concentration, or a passive escape from the pressures and distractions of home or office? T…