Many medium-sized middle-eastern cities like Khobar in Saudi Arabia have become a popular destination for predominantly low-to semi-skilled expatriate workers from several South and South East Asian countries. The social spatialization of these working class people has been manifested in compartmentalized public spaces as specific ethnic oriented “third places”, such as Filipino markets, Bangladeshi bazaar, and Pakistani neighborhood. Yet, there is no research scholarship available on the nature and type of such third places and their importance and influences on plan making process in the middle-eastern context. Certain (re-)defining themes, notably expressing and celebrating everyday culture, feeling of home being away from home, sense of places, and center places for socialization and integration emerge to brand these places as we explored empirical evidence with grounded theory centered socio-cultural lenses. Additionally, exploring spatio-temporal permeability of these third places using Space Syntax accessibility model helped us to draw critical insights about how such lessons and practices can challenge the contemporary city planning and design practices. Critical planning interventions like collaborative governance of third places as proposed here can be adopted in making cities like Khobar cohesive.

许多中等规模的中东城市，例如沙特阿拉伯的Khobar，已经成为来自多个东南亚国家和地区的低技能到半熟练的外籍工人的普遍目的地。这些工人阶级的社会空间化已在分隔开的公共空间中体现为特定的面向种族的“第三地方”，例如菲律宾市场，孟加拉国集市和巴基斯坦邻里。然而，在中东地区，没有关于此类第三名的性质和类型及其重要性和对计划制定过程的影响的研究奖学金。某些（重新定义主题，尤其是表达和庆祝日常文化，宾至如归的感觉，场所感以及社会化和融合的中心场所，这些品牌随着我们以扎实的理论为中心的社会文化视角探索经验证据而崭露头角。此外，使用“空间语法”可访问性模型探索了这些第三地点的时空渗透性，有助于我们得出有关这些课程和实践如何挑战当代城市规划和设计实践的批判性见解。这里提出的关键计划干预措施（如第三名的协作治理）可以使科巴类似的城市具有凝聚力。