Non-Routine practice

<p>Public informal space became less usable for children and adolescents over decades. By the time people become adults and can pay their own way, they have no stored positive experience of third places, so they do not seek them.</p><p>This is a life-course demand hypothesis, not a current-preference hypothesis. A 35-year-old can say they would like a regular tavern and still not go because they never learned the room. Youth exclusion, age bans, and “no kids hanging around” rules are the independent side. Adult desire and adult use are the dependent side.</p><p>Fails if cohorts with restricted youth access use adult qualifying sites at the same rate as cohorts that grew up in them, after price and access are held.</p>